Belgian Art Deco. Living in style.

Gorgeous silver plated set of two one cup dripolaters from the late thirties.

They come with a tray and cookie jar. Still fully functional. Set comes with instructions.

Produced by Wiskemann Brussels, glasses provided by Durobor (one spare glass included).

Condition: very good but used vintage condition. Normal signs of use. The cookie jar seems not an original part of the set, and has a bit of a dent on the lid.

Dimensions:

Dripolators: height: 20cms/8inches

diameter: 7cms/2.75inches

cookie jar: height: 5.5cms/2.15inches

diameter: 11cms/4.30inches

tray: lenght: 32.5cms/12.80inches

width: 23.5cms/9.25inches

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Fun and food: kookeet 2015

Lovely, happy people: the"Weinebrugge" staff.

Dominique Persoone and Fabienne ("The Chocolate Line") created a sweet hospital with chocolate treatments of the finest quality!

Barrio Cantina, street food public!

To the Barrio Cantina website

Barrio Cantina, Bruges' food truck festival 1915.

Food trucks and street food! 
Mastelle & co on facebook

Potatolicious' website

ginsonline.be

Summerboys

People enjoying sunny spring weather in a public parc. Ostend.

A little American house in Flanders fields.

One can find this little treasure at the Memorial Museum in Zonnebeke; one of the many little prefab houses donated by the United States to help those who lost their home due to the war. I think it dates from the early twenties, and it got even severly damaged during a wwii bombing. 

Memorial Museum Passchendale

The Great War

Reconstructed trenches, Memorial Museum Passchendaele, Zonnebeke.

Memorial Museum Passchendaele

The Great War started a 100 years ago and is still very present in the- nowadays- peaceful Flemish landscape. The memorials and museums are for the moment full of tourists, many of them had a grandfather or great grandfather enlisted during the war. I'm a bit jealous when I see how well prepared British children are when they visit the area, and how well they understand the importance and impact of the Great War. Alas, in West-Flanders itself one can only notice a rapidly diminishing interest amongst local youngsters. We need more projects like this: "James Joins Up"

El "Mercator"

Uno de los mayores atractivos del puerto de Ostende es el bergantín "Mercator", que previamente fué buque escuela de la flota mercante de Bélgica. Fué diseñado por el explorador belga de la Antártida Adrien de Gerlache, y recebió su nombre del famoso cartógrafo flamenco Gheeraert Mercator y fué construido en Escocia en 1932.
Sirvió de buque escuela hasta 1960 y es museo desde 1961. Aparte de ser un buque escuela se utilizó también en expediciones científicas.
Su viaje más famoso tuvo lugar en 1936 y se dirigió a Molokai para traer de vuelta los restos del padre Damián.
Hoy en día domina orgulloso la marina de Ostende y merece ciertamente una visita.

El "Mercator"

The ladies of Ghent.

Lovely ladies in Ghent, there are lots of them!

Zeebrugge

The "Mercator"

One of Ostend's famous landmarks is the barkentine "Mercator", a former training ship of the Belgian merchant fleet.

It was designed by the Belgian antartic explorer Adrien de Gerlache and named after the famous Flemish cartographer Gheeraert Mercator, and built in Scotland in 1932.

The ship served as a schoolship until 1960 and is since 1961 a museum.

Apart from being a training ship it was also used for scientific expeditions, and it's most famous trip was in 1936, to Molokai, to bring back home the earthly remains of father Damian.

Nowadays it proudly dominates the marina of Ostend and is certainly worth a visit.

The Mercator website

Is this December?

We started today the first of our Christmas shopping expeditions. Amazingly enough it was so sunny and warm that we got the summer snapshot feeling. Doña B was glad she could leave winter dresses home.

 

autumn!!!

The countryside around the castle of Wynendaele is very popular with cyclists and strollers. The landscape may not be very impressive, nor are the farms old and medieval, but the cornfields and  meadows on the hillslopes, the copses here and there, and the ancient avenues bordered with knotted willow and linden trees are a real pleasure for the eyes. Before entering the silence of the Wynendaele forest I saw a farmer and his wife harvesting cauliflower. What can be a better treat after an autumn walk then a good cup of cauliflower soup!

The Old Cemetery

I always thought Torhout was a rather dull place. Being nearly completely destroyed during WWI only a few remainders of old "Thourhout" are left.

Beside a beautiful 17th century hospital there is that awesome old cemetery.