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 [...]
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Mechelen – Day Five
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
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A Christmas Gift
It is my turn at Vision & Verb today. My post is about about the choice of a weekend away in Mechelen as a Christmas gift.
I invite you to join me there.
12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2014
