Here’s the last installment of my Belgian adventures!
Time to move on! Next up, will be recording blogs!
left to right: Back: Erwin, Paul, Marie-Roos, Guy. Front: Jean-Paul, Stephane
my dad and Stephane De Roover
aged statue
so many different layers of buildings!
an entrance to a building,…fantastic!
many old buildings and churches were being renovated/cleaned/repaired
The Flemish lion
door to nowhere on a river
this is an attempted recreation of a drawing that my dad’s brother Eric did when he was younger.
Windows and doors! (of course I’d bring it up!)
Perfect picture, except for the anachronistic green van!
he just looks so sad!
translation: Health Pharmacy
scattered throughout Brugges, these tell you the speed limits in school zones
my grandmother’s house
more wind turbines
mud in the fields…
I like this photo in two different dimensions…
symmetry
another church
plant magic!
my grandfather’s grave
his gravestone
random gravestone
my uncle Antoon, Moemoe, and dad
church in Lokeren
The masthead of a ship in a restaurant in Lokeren
“yeah, i got gold, frankincense and myrrh, but this guy didn’t bring me anything!”
gentile humor…
epic church statues
shining a light
about to behead Saint Barbara
Antoon, Moemoe, dad
Is that John Travolta? No…it’s a turkey.
my grandfather’s childhood home
the river at sunset
sailing past the moon
Gent (Belgium) city centre at night
Gent
Gent
Gent
a riverfront in Gent (it’s not the moon, it’s a distant clock tower)
Castle romance in Gent
myself and my cousin Bruno
my friend that I grew up with in Bolivia, over 10 years ago: Inger Kloos, now a professional horse trainer!
Prepping for training
Inger and Ellen Kloos
Inger and Ellen Kloos
The train station in Roosendaal (I think…)
The “Ice House”: the City Hall of Den Haag (The Hague) in Holland
potential design for the new International Courts of Justice building in Den Haag. Anyone else see a resemblance with the Loch Ness Monster?
a very strange looking art installation
they had projections of children’s faces on the figures.
it was actually quite frightening to watch. They were installed for World AIDS day
my cousin Paul De Roover
more of the “Ice House”
Paul again
more of the “Ice House”
the architecture is very old, but a few newer buildings seem out of place. The two ‘peak’ buildings are referred to as “The Tits”
eating a fresh herring
…covered in onions…
…delicious…
seagull, taken by my cousin Paul De Roover
lion statue
golden gate
oh really?
How time flies…
My late grandfather, Paul De Roover