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Returning to the UK via Mons
... Mons is famous as the site of the first battle of WW1 of the British Expeditionary Force. They lost and were forced to withdrawn handing the city to the Germans who held it right up to the end of the War.
We selected the Infotel hotel which was a two minute walk from the centre of town, being the typical European 14th century market square set up. We figured we would get to the hotel early afternoon, put the P-D away and ...
Nice Surprise
... afraid t use the horns.
Travel on Sundays is always the best time to travel. Trucks are not allowed on the roads so as a result it speeds up and ia much less busy.
Travelling the roads is half the battle here in europe. The other half is parking but tht is better left to another day.
Next week looks like we will be travelling to southern Belguim to check out the Ardennes Forest nd some of the Battle o the Bulge battle sites.
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Hmmmm Waffles and Chocolate. and Belgium.
... aka the capital of the EU and Belgium. We went to a beautiful cathedral, ate waffles, bought chocolate, walked through a park and saw the monument to the peeing boy holding his weenie. There's a story behind that. Sparknotes version: dynamite was about to blow **** up in Brussels when this little boy saw that someone had lit its fuse. Then he peed on it and saved Brussels.
More about Bruges later.
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Minha vida doméstica até este momento
... ter alguma noção pelas fotos. E é assim que tenho ficado boa parte dos dias...
Curiosidade/ cultura (obrigatória): aqui o sistema de coleta de lixo é diferente. Só recolhem os lixos nos sacos específicos que a prefeitura fornece. Azul pra PMC (plastico, metal e "caixinhas de leite", marrom pra papeis e branco pra lixo comum. Lá fui eu fazer meu papel de cidadão e separar as coisas direitinho e comprar os sacos de ...
Mons - Primeiro capítulo
... vez, então terão mais coisas sobre Mons ainda. Em cada foto tento explicar alguma coisinha.
Curiosidade sobre Mons: desde 2002 sendo a capital cultural da Valônia*, Mons foi eleita esse ano como capital Europeia da cultura em 2015. Ou seja, muito em breve ela ficará famosa no mundo inteiro... =) , bom, pelo menos na europa... ah... ou talvez só na Bélgica... bom, mas aqui a notícia ta bombando já!! =P
* Valônia: região sul da Bélgica, de maioria francófona.
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