Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Art, Holidays, Mechelen 2014
As well as the Moon Extinguishers (see previous post) the flags flying over the centre of Mechelen also show Opsinjoorke in flight:
The bronze statue in front of the Town Hall shows Opsinjoorke in full flight. The original doll was made in 1647. It is carried in ceremonial and religious processions and thrown into the air [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 15th 2014
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
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Mechelen 2014
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 11th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Mechelen 2014
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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… 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
Filed under Holidays, Mechelen 2014
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
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 6th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Mechelen 2014
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
