{"id":190,"date":"2009-02-17T22:46:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T21:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=190"},"modified":"2009-03-22T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T11:43:00","slug":"week-6-four-countries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=190","title":{"rendered":"Week 06: Four countries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s PAW spans four countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and of course Spain. <\/p>\n

Main<\/strong>
\nI spent Saturday night at a friend’s house in Grembergen, a village near Dendermonde, which in turn is somewhere between Brussels and Ghent. When I woke up Sunday morning, I went for a brief walk in the very sleepy village. This is what the main street looks like:
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\nThe alternates<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Alternate 1<\/em>
\nBut there are some nice places too:
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Alternate 2<\/em>
\nMy friend’s cat barely tolerated me:
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I then took a train back to Brussels, where I met up with fellow LUG members Michiel and Philippe to prowl the markets with our Leicas (my pictures from the markets are here<\/a> but please finish this weekly blog first).<\/p>\n

Alternate 3<\/em>
\nHere they are at the Gare du Midi market. Philippe’s sensor wore out so he had to insert a fresh one:
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Alternate 4<\/em>
\nWe had lunch at a cafe on Place Jeu de Balles, site of a large antiques\/junk market. Here is Philippe talking to me (photo by Michiel Fokkema<\/em>):
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Alternate 5<\/em>
\nPhilippe and lunch. The main ingredients are typically Belgian:
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Alternate 6<\/em>
\nWe then walked back to the train station. Comics strips are a recognised and treasured art form in Belgium:
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Alternate 7<\/em>
\nI have no idea what is the story behind this:
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At the train station we said goodbye. Philippe drove back to the suburb of Brussels where he lives, Michiel took the train back to Rotterdam, and I took a train to Luxembourg where I was going to spend the next two days, attending a course on EU law.<\/p>\n

Alternate 8<\/em>
\nThe weather in Luxembourg was not nice at all:
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Alternate 9<\/em>
\nAnd in general, it is a very quiet city (a less charitable person might even call it boring):
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Alternate 10<\/em>
\nPeople shelter as best they can:
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On Tuesday evening, enriched with knowledge, I took the train to D\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bcsseldorf where I was going to spend the night before flying home to Alicante Wednesday morning (Luxembourg does not have very good connections to Spain).<\/p>\n

Alternate 11<\/em>
\nD\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bcsseldorf proved to be a much livelier place, particularly as regards watering holes:
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Alternate 12<\/em>
\nBeer and footie–what can be better on a cold winter night?
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Alternate 13<\/em>
\nA pensive girl at D\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bcsseldorf airport Wednesday morning:
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Alternate 14<\/em>
\nI never found out if she was wiping a tear from her friend’s face or just correcting some makeup flaw:
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Back in Alicante, life and work resumed. Friday evening we attended a wine tasting at a local wine shop, La Bodega. They have a dining room upstairs, and for \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c2\u00ac 30 one gets the wine tasting and dinner.<\/p>\n

Alternate 15<\/em>
\nExplaining the wine:
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Alternate 16<\/em>
\nDiscussing the wine:
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Alternate 17<\/em>
\nServing a nibble:
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Equipment note: about half of the pictures in this week’s blog (from alt8 onwards if I am not mistaken) were taken with a 40-year old lens on a new digital camera. Lovely marriage of technologies from different times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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