Chateau de Namur
Avenue de l'Ermitage, 1 Namur, Namur, The Ardennes, 5000, Belgium
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My! My! At Waterloo, Napoleon Did Surrender.
... where the battle took place. It was all quite fascinating.
Tthe quick summary: Napoleon rose to power in the early 1800s - filling the void left by the 1789 French Revolution. He was defeated and exiled to Elba, but he escaped, and marched to Paris amassing another army as he went (over 100,000 troops).
He then decided to attack the English and Prussians to the north hoping to break the back ...
The Citadel
... the citadel was built during the late Roman era, but over the years, because of the strategic location of the fortress, numerous invasions and sieges have destroyed portions of the structures. Now, the majority of the parts of the citadel are from construction following the 1692 siege. I think up until 1977 the citadel was used for solely military purposes, ...
Surprise Trip continued
...and on through Belgium, passing more amazing windmills and vast farmlands with cows and goats and sheep and deer, and old, tired looking cities with ancient churches with spires stretching toward the sky and castle-like buildings peeking between trees and more modern buildings, and on further ...
A tour about town
... and, of course, the shops.
After stopping in a small café for a hot chocolate, we were driven up to the Citadelle, which is up quite a steep hill and on the top sits a castle, which is not a ruin nor an old building, in fact it houses a cooking school and and incredibly pricey restaurant. You can tell the type of clientèle the place attracts just by looking at the cars parked outside! We went to ...
Bonjour, Verwelkoming, Guten Tag
... The countryside from London to Dover is so pretty, and it isn’t that far so I am very excited about our train trip to Edinburgh for New Years. As we were driving into the Ferry Port, the tour guide says "oh it looks a bit choppy out there", not very reassuring. As you get onto the Ferry they serve hot English breakfast which went down a treat, even though the boat was swaying a lot. I remember saying to Todd, “sea sickness is all in the mind on a ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Le Chateau De Namur



