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CTyankee

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2. everything was easily reachable by the wonderrful rail system in Belgium.

Reply to brer cat (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:27 AM

Mar 2016

The Bruges Madonna is still in the church it was meant for and is the only sculpture by Michelangelo that is outside Italy. The Germans hauled it away (so did Napoleon!) but it doesn't look too beat up given its history. The city commissioned Michelangelo to do it.

The Ghent Altarpiece is preserved in a special room where only a certain number of people are allowed at a time and only for 15 minutes. Of course, no touching. It is magnificent and much larger than I thought it would be.

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a memory of Brussels: people eating on the street as they walk along... [View all] CTyankee Mar 2016 OP

Nice memories... brer cat Mar 2016 #1

everything was easily reachable by the wonderrful rail system in Belgium. CTyankee Mar 2016 #2

Oh yeah, the Belgians are picky about the language: French in the south, dutch in the north. DetlefK Mar 2016 #3

and don't voice out loud to the Dutch about how Flemish is nearly identical to Dutch. CTyankee Mar 2016 #4

I live on the Dutch side...which is great all american girl Mar 2016 #6

My memories of BXL are much, much different. Being harrassed daily on the street, even when underahedgerow Mar 2016 #5

wow, I guess my experience was before the wave of migrants overwhelmed the city CTyankee Mar 2016 #7

Friends just came back from there. They love Hortensis Mar 2016 #9

what is Trump's "concern" about Brussels all about? CTyankee Mar 2016 #10

Ay-rabs. Major call to bigotry. Hortensis Mar 2016 #11

people migrate. it's the history of the world. No walls are high enough nor strong CTyankee Mar 2016 #12

Past colonial empires also even have a way of Hortensis Mar 2016 #13

You were in the prettiest parts of the city and not in the nieghborhoods. Even just a few blocks off underahedgerow Mar 2016 #15

we had a memorable dinner in Brussels at a French restaurant. I remember it fondly. CTyankee Mar 2016 #18

Wow, congradulations Abouttime Mar 2016 #8

Yeah, pretty close. ret5hd Mar 2016 #14

What is one single racist thing I said? You're confusing it with cultural sexism, I believe. underahedgerow Mar 2016 #16

I agree...Stop the Hate...Sign here. bdwker Mar 2016 #17