A Room with a View Brugge
Hugo Verriesstraat 10 - 12 Brugge, West Flanders, 8000, Belgium
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Travel to Belgium - Bruges to the home of my ancestors for further research on our ancestry with a cousin I didn't know I had until only recently. He has it traced backed to the 1500's and wants me to continue my section of the family which has been in the US for the past 100 years.
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... and the internal dynamics of family businesses, new activities were developed, so that the region reached an extraordinarily high level of prosperity.
This period is characterized by social and cultural emancipation: the good relations between the workers and their employers, mostly in family businesses, supported local prosperity. The Flemish culture as well as the Dutch language have taken a firm position in the bilingual Belgian state.
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From "Flander's fields" to Westvleteren
... beer phone, you have to give personal information, including the license plate number to your car. One is then given a date and time at which you must be at the front gate of the abbey to purchase the beer. It is strictly forbidden to be resold and after you purchase your two case limit, the same car or phone number cannot purchase again for another sixty days. All of these measures are only because there is a small amount of beer ...
This is one city I will visit again
... I just strolled back and forth across, sometimes stopping to take pictures, sometimes stopping for coffee or a beer and to read. You can feel the vibe of all the good people. You can see it in their facial expressions and their body language. There are hundreds of bikes in town and not one is locked up. No one is afraid of anyone walking out on their tab at restaurants. Everyone is genuinely happy and enjoying ...
In Flanders Fields the poppies grow..
... by endless bombardmentover the trenches and tunnels and watched as a couple of children played amongst it all with not a clue. It was quite fitting.
I found the experience a little difficult to take in, being a place where people died at the peak of their lives fighting, not a graveyard where people are laid to rest. It all seems a little surreal now - just a bit of turf in the middle of Belgium surrounded by a few houses and bars.
Hill 62 ...

