Thursday, February 21, 2008

Bruges - Pictures


view of a canal

View from on top of the belfort. This is a stadhuis or town hall - the oldest in belgium

Windmill - apparently built by the dutch

Feminism in flanders was born around the year 1200. A group of religious women got a bit mystical in their belifs - getting married to Jesus and things like that - and the catholic church wanted to bury them alive. The women (called beguins) thought otherwise: they started their own independent communites all over flanders.


I like this picture. It was on the way to Damme... and then I almost got ran over by a car. hahaha

View of a canal - stupid tacky tourist boats.

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