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61A Long Farewell.... remembering..a past generation.
Remembering; some will not forget the generation who had their lives dominated by the First World War. This year for the first time there will be no First World War veterans at the memorial service. Harry...
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70Bruges-la-Morte, by Georges Rodenbach
In 1892 Georges Rodenbach published his masterpiece Bruges-la-Morte. The short novel immediately was acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of the "decadent movement" in French literature, a vision...
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73Traditional Flemish (Belgian) Meat Stew (Stoofvlees)
Traditional Flemish (Belgian) Meat Stew Recipe Ingredients: 700 – 900 gr. stewing beef cut into medium (bite) sized chunks oil or butter for frying 2 large onions (ring-chopped) 1...
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65My Grandfather - My Hero
My grandfather was the eldest and had a wife and five small children and quite a big farm when the First World War broke out. He was 32 years old and had to leave his home, family and village to go to...
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71History of World War I Part II Fight at Two Fronts
Visit History of World War I Part I for previous details The Western Front The initial plan of the German strategy was to defeat France in the west shortly, while a small part of the German Army and all the...
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59Traveling To Belgium, Part3:Bruges
In the Belgian province of west-Vlaanderen(western flanders) located city of Bruges has had millions of visitors over the past decades. The famous historical Belgian city has numeral kinds of names such as...
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81The Code of the Holy Blood
In 1890, the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans wrote to a young Dutch novelist he was searching for "a demoniac sodomite priest" who performed the black mass. Joris-Karl - "J.K." for the friends - needed this...
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83The Holy Sepulchre of Bruges-la-Morte
Visiting the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Bruges-La-Morte, the Venice of the North, is a strange and morbid experience. Not only because the Holy Grave is to be found here, or a statue of the dead Christ,...
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69The Medieval Procession of Penance at Furnes
An 1908 article in The New York Times says that he Belgian city of Furnes (Veurne) celebrates a Medieval Procession of Penance or Penitence, and this for more than 500 years... But why are the 12th century origins of the Procession erased from the modern Belgian records?
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64The Human Cost of War in Iraq - Eyes Wide Open Exhibit
It is difficult to comprehand that the war in Iraq was not ended long ago. When the fiasco began, the American Friends Service Committee created a traveling exhibition to help translate sterile casualty...
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