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.
here is a man falling down a danger drop. i think this sign has got real movement.
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.
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:
here the is duck again, this time with people by it so you can see it’s size
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 !).
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:
this morning (saturday) was the last formal part of the conference. it was a different venue so the walk from the hotel was only 10 minutes rather than the usual 30 minutes.
then it was free time this afternoon before the gala dinner this evening. i’ve even bought a new belgian shirt for the occasion.
walking through the city of ghent heading back to my hotel i saw this lady holding this dog. something wasn’t quite right. it was stuffed.
but nice it still got to go on regular walks.
Light bulbs and boxes of plasters:
and a baby statue:
