July 17, 2019

Zogge (Flanders) - My/a kingdom for a horse

I took you to Zogge before. This time however it's not for a pig's ass or lips. Let's go see some mares and foals ...

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June 29, 2019

Meise (Flanders) - Botanic Garden- part 2

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June 28, 2019

Meise (Flanders) - Botanic Garden- part 1

I had visited the Meise Botanic Garden before. Somewhere in early spring 2018 with no good weather, so we went for a long walk through the pretty immense…

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June 21, 2019

Lier (Flanders) - Walking with Pallieter

Lier is a city in the province of Antwerp (Flanders), the city center is surrounded by the river Nete, which also cuts through it. That's just about how the…

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June 10, 2019

Steendorp (Flanders)

Steendorp is a little village on the other side of river Scheldt from where I live. It's apparently so unimportant that it doesn't have its own lemma on…

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May 13, 2019

Beveren (Flanders) - Castle Cortewalle

Castle Cortewalle is a 15th century water fortress. Nowadays it's in the middle of a nice park. That's where I made these photos (the former mill is right on…

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May 01, 2019

Sint-Gillis-Waas (Flanders) - Free Foxes

Passed by this statue (Free Foxes by Caroline Coolen) when we were touring the Vossen ("Foxes") trail I've talked about a few times before (last time was here).…

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April 20, 2019

Kaprijke (Flanders)

Kaprijke is a village in the Flemish province Oost-Vlaanderen (East-Flanders) that used to be more of a city. During the 14th and 15th century it flourished…

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April 19, 2019

Kieldrecht (Flanders) - House of Sin

I mentioned the event Vossen a number of times before (here, here, here, here, here, here and here), but I didn't take you to the Huis van Zonde (House of Sin)…

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March 25, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 6

Last part of my Campo Santo series (here's 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). We'll move on to somewhat happier places after this one :-)

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March 23, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 5

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March 22, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 4

For more text on this graveyard (and others) I kindly refer to part 1 of this series. For more photos you can check out that part as well and this one and this…

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March 21, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 3

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March 20, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 2

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March 19, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 1

I've taken you to a number of graveyards before. The Schoonselhof in Antwerp (here), Kerepesi temető in Budapest (here and here), the graveyards of Veenhuizen…

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March 09, 2019

Genk (Flanders) - Natural reserve De Maten - part 2

Something more about the natural reserve and how I came to find myself there in the first part. Here's more photos.

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March 08, 2019

Genk (Flanders) - Natural reserve De Maten - part 1

Genk is a city in the Flemish province Limburg. I was there a few weeks ago to do a demo of the product I manage. But since I was there way too early and didn't…

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March 01, 2019

Beveren (Flanders) - Mercatorhuis - part 6

Last part of this Mercatorhuis series. More on the visit in general is in part 1, more about the statues in this post and the previous one is in this post.

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Feb. 28, 2019

Beveren (Flanders) - Mercatorhuis - part 5

Fifth parth in this series (here's 1, 2, 3 and 4) and second part about the Hoofdstukken by Jan Fabre (more about that in part 4).

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Feb. 27, 2019

Beveren (Flanders) - Mercatorhuis - part 4

Part four of this series. More about the setting in part one, and more photos in part two and three. In this post and the following ones photos of statues made…

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