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Au delà de l'espoir

An interesting sculpture was recently placed in Matonge: Au delà de l'espoir - on the other side of hope. The sculpture is by Congolese artist Freddy Tsimba and entirely made out of bullets. A very striking sculpture. A message against war and misery, as it was said when made public.

More Matonge photos:
- the mural by Samba wa Mbimba N’zingo Nuni Masi Ndo Mbasi
- the food
- Matonge en couleurs

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Nuit Blanche

Every year Brussels organizes the Nuit Blanche (the white nights). The city comes to life at night. This year's theme was the 7 sins. A fun event, which kept us up till 5:00am. Probably a little too old for that :) but a lot of fun.

Here the Grand Place invaded by green light.

The Elevator

The Brussels elevator: getting you from upper Brussels, to lower Brussels.

Belgian Lace

In action so to speak. Traditioanl Belgian lace was (is) handmade, and here a small demonstration on how it is being produced. Specifically, how the lace is made in Brugge.

Les Geants

As promised, the giants. Well, some of them. More, if you are interested in the story behind the Marolles festivities.

Fetes de Brueghel

Last Friday, I promised you more photos from the Marolles area. It so happens that last weekend saw a double celebration: the Fete des Geants (the Giants Fair) and the Festival de la Praline (the Praline Festival).

What does this mean? That we saw a lot of giants and ate a lot of chocolate. No photos of the chocolate as such, but stay tuned for some giants.

Pont Sainctelette

Did you know Brussels has a canal? Well, it does. Not that it actually tries to make the most of it. Which I find a pity, as the area around the canal could really benefit from a little revival.

This particular statue is at the end of the Pont Sainctelette crossing the canal. Built by Ernest Wijnants (1878-1964), in a somewhat byzantine style.

Venus

I promised you a walk in the park. Venus. Yes, the planet. And a very interesting Belgian project we discovered: Space for Muco. A tour of the solar system.

Belgian artists got together and recreated the solar system, on a scale of 1/40,000,000. 9 different Belgian cities have now one more more planets. We came across Venus, but I very much look forward discovering the others as well.

Who knew Brussels (Belgium) holds such interesting artistic secrets?

Gymnase

An old and out of use gymnse (school) in Watermael Boitsfort.

Posh WC

No comment.

Purifies

If anyone has any idea what this is all about?

Urban BBQ

You have probably noticed there was a little bit of silence online ... well that is due mostly to the summer (no sun to speak of though) and visitors. Hope you enjoyed the little trip to Bruges / Brugge.

Back in Brussels it s still grey. But we did go to check out the Urban BBQ, a new Brussels concept. I bet if the sun would have been out the BBQ would have been a success.

Brugge