bell tower
this isn’t a horse with a hat on. it’s a church with a horse in front of it.
September 2004
collage
a collage graffiti type thing made from sticking pictures on to a door.
bollard
a bollard checking down the hole to see what it’s meant to be guarding against.
danger
these signs get more complicated to understand as you read from the left to the right. i’m not sure what the one on the end means, but i wouldn’t want to stand near it when it happens.
quelle fromage
i’m back home now. i tried to change my eurostar ticket to come back 8 hours earlier but they wouldn’t let me even though the 10am train was quite empty and my 6pm train was quite full. my fault for saving my company money by buying the cheapest ticket !
when i woke up this morning i decided i’d rather spend the day with my family than doing more sightseeing, but it wasn’t to be. so, expect lots of photos of brussels (and a few more from Ghent) over the next few days.
i had my lunch this afternoon in a park in brussels. i very carefully ordered ham and chips from the menu. but ended up with papprika flavoured crisps and cheese on cocktail sticks. cheese is quite a challenge for a non milk consumer such as i myself am [was that a proper sentence ?].
i think this is what happens after 5 days with an average of 5 hours sleep/night. oh well.
best get to bed as in 7 hours time i need to get up for another week of work … and the nights/mornings are getting dark. ho hum.
walking
as you know, i walk a lot. so here are some walking facts for you:
1) last week was my furthest walking week at 112.96km
2) i installed a pedometer on to my trousers about the same time i started wearing my new boots (around 2nd feb – i had a month of occasionally wearing them before retiring my old ones)
3) since i installed my pedometer i’ve walked 2080 km
4) i average exactly 65km / week
5) my boots currently cost me 2.9 pence per km.
danger drop
here is a man falling down a danger drop. i think this sign has got real movement.
festival heads
there’s a music fair going on at the moment in ghent with all sorts of side entertainments. one group of entertainments had obviously finished work and had gone in to a bar leaving their instruments and heads in the street.
rain
yesterday it rained which appeared to be no surprise to the locals, but confused a few tourists. the site-seeing boats seemed well prepared and almost appeared to turn in to umbrella sail boats:
the duck (again)
here the is duck again, this time with people by it so you can see it’s size
the gala dinner
it was the conference finale last night. much food, good conversation and a live band (which seemed to be playing their songs just too slow to dance to – so i didn’t for once !).
more belgian dog signs (best ever ?)
there’s been some great dog signs in Ghent. they’ve been a joy to find.
here’s a dog straining following his success:
here’s a dog weeing. it’s in the same cartoon style. Cartoons are a big Belgian thing and something they are rightly proud of:
but look at this – it’s all the Ghent dog signs on the same board:
click to inspect
here it is in situ with a nice tower block behind it:
