Who Needs Sun? : A November Photo Tour Of Brussels

Nige - Just been back home again to Scotland and was at Atholl myself that prpetomd me to pop in here again and I thought a few comments might be useful. The socks are called hose and if you are an Atholl Highland piper then you wear diced hose in other words the stripey red and white numbers. I wore the same at university in the OTC but they were footless! They were for decoration above the spats we used to wear with shoes, mens' highland as the Army calls big clumpy brogues. This lot are different and wear her diced hose right down to the and proper footwear with the large silver buckle that hasn't changed shape since Bonnie Prince Charlie's time. The pipers also wear red facings, have a different pattern of sporran and have swallows nests on their shoulders to denote that they are musicians. Note the pipe banners some are carrying on the pipes, and how some have silver mouth pieces (very flash) on their pipes. The four chevrons upside down on the right sleeve of the boss denote the pipe major. The Highlanders themselves wear white facings and red and black mix woollen socks. All wear the Glengarry headdress and a sgian dubh (Gaelic for black knife) wee knife in their right sock. Bet you knew all that though anyway!

jimbo - Wilbur, In my experience there few thigns that can give you a singular focus and clarity of mind better that fear and pain. Not nagging fear or dull pain but that real in your face pucker factor fear and hot poker in the eye type of pain. Sounds like you have received both by the score as of late. Sorry for that! But for what it's worth I agree with Carol that your even more so yourself and it has provided a sharpness and richness to your posts that I don't think you are even aware of. It has transformed you into quite the Hemingway. Take that for what it's worth but it leaves me looking forward to you next post. Know that we are actually living vicariously through you as hard as that may seem to fathom. You have the rare gift of time (yeah I know probably too much for anyone's liking!), and the greater gift of the inclination to stop and smell the roses. We all want to make time to examine the world we live in in greater detail, to take it all in and roll it about in out brain pans for bit longer than we usually can afford to, but alas we are too caught up in our rodent races and the minutiae of our lives to stop and do so. So thanx for doing some of it for us, it really is providing a rare bit of escape from our grinds. Love ya man!

Thank you for the precision about the park :-)

Enjoy your day!

Great pictures of Brussels! The pictures of the woods, is it "les Bois de la Cambre"?

If I remember well, there was a Milk Bar in the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert when I was a kid; I used to go there for lunch with my mother. Later, I taught in a school not to far from "La Grand Place".

Thank you for sharing a few sides of that big city! For me Belgium was just too grey to stay. The year my husband and I left, we had 2 days without rain during the summer!

An interesting approach (I had no idea that it rained so much in Belgium) and some great photographs -- I rally do like the black and white photographs. They seem to catch shadows and nuances better. Sharing.

Gorgeous pics! That one of the Eglise Notre Dame is breathtaking. I tried to go to the top of the Old England building in September, but the elevator went from back and forth from floor 1 to floor -1 four times before it broke completely and my claustrophobic friend--with whom I'd already been stuck in an elevator once--started to panic. We had to drop it. I definitely want to see that view on my next trip.

You really have an eye for a great photograph...the black and white add that 'something' in the damp conditions, and you have captured some great Autumn colours in the park photo's ( I like the Camus quote too, I haven't heard that one before!) :-))

Awesome photo, thanks for the great tour !

Love the imagery, very inviting.

Exceptional pictures. Thank you