People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Archive for the 'Mechelen 2014' Category
Filed under Holidays, Mechelen 2014
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 6th 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
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Mechelen – Day Three
The weather was fine when we ventured out after breakfast so first port of call was back to the military barracks. On our visit the previous day we had forgotten to walk around the side to see the restored railway carriage that had transported the Jews from the barracks to Auschwitz Birkenau.
We then set off [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 2nd 2014
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Mechelen – Day Two
After a good nights sleep we ventured downstairs for breakfast. The breakfast room is quite stunning. It is situated in what was the choir of the church.
The breakfast buffet was one of the best I have ever seen. There was a decadent option of having a glass of Cava to put you in [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 1st 2014
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Mechelen – Day One
The traffic to Stafford station was heavier than expected. This cut it a bit fine for getting to the station in time for printing off the tickets. Luckily the ticket printing ran smoothly, which is not always the case.
Once on the train, we had a bacon buttie and cup of tea for breakfast. Some things [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Mar 31st 2014
