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Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Mechelen 2014
Mechelen
For my birthday I had been given a copy of Bradshaw’s Handbook and found the descriptions of the towns quite delightful. So with a book voucher I received for Christmas I treated myself to Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide.
I looked up Mechelen within it’s pages and found that in 1913 when the book was published the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 9th 2014
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After We Have Rested a While…
… it is time to enjoy a few features of the hotel before we retire for some well earned sleep.
16 Comments CherryPie on Apr 8th 2014
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After Checking in…
… it is time to ‘rest a while’ on the comfy chairs next to the well stocked bar.
We can enjoy each others company, enjoy the atmosphere and watch the world go by
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 7th 2014
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Martin’s Patershof
A previous post explains how we ended up staying in this hotel in Mechelan. I fell in love with the hotel
As luck would have it an email arrived from the Belgian hotel chain that we used when we stayed in Bruges. It gave us inspiration and I fell in love with [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 5th 2014
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Mechelen – Day Five
After our final Mechelen breakfast Mr C decided he wanted to stay in the hotel room until it was time to catch a cab to the station. He was also all for waiting until the last minute to book the cab, but I insisted we booked it straight after breakfast. I didn’t want the possibilities [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 4th 2014
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Mechelen – Day Four
Mechelen is a city of many historic churches, eight are promoted as places worthy a visit. We each picked a church of our wish list, for Mr C it was Church of our Lady Hanswidj and for me it was Beguinage Church and between us we decided to include Church of Our Lady Across the [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 3rd 2014
