Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Mechelen 2014
The people of Mechelen are sometime nicknamed Maneblussers (Moon Extinguishers):
On the night of January 27th/28th 1687 St Rumbold’s Tower was shrouded in mist. A none too sober tippler emerged from an inn on the Grote Markt. He suddenly saw that the tower was on fire and immediately raised the alarm.
The whole city was thrown into confusion, the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 14th 2014
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10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 11th 2014
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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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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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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 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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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
