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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Some pictures of the previous days



Mom and I went to De Haan aan zee, one of the most beautiful spots in the Belgian coast. Of course some walking in the water was a must!


This is last sunday, with TobĂ­as (my friend Yblin's little son) after the "rural" walk in Merelbeke where Yblin and her family live.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Visiting Greece

One of my favourite destinations in the world is Greece, particularly Athens. Probably because I have very good memories of the times spent there, as tourist with my brother, as stagiare at the Department of Nutrition in the frame of the DAFNE project, or also the blessed fellowship with the nice bretheren from the International Church. So, Mom's visit was an excellent excuse to visit Athens and Greece again.

We enjoyed very good weather, I would say a bit too warm. As you can see below, mom and I climbed to the Accropolis under the morning sun!


A good idea when in Greece, particularly in summer is to take a one-day cruise. First of all, it gives you an overall impression of Greek Islands, you travel in a nice boat, with airco and all facilities, and the movement of the boat is indeed refreshing. The next picture, Mom on the cruise boat.


Here, Mom at the Poros port, with some nice yachts behind.


This is at the beautiful island of Hydra, where it was allowed to swim (should we had known that!). The temperatures were rising and the sun simply burning!


Then we have a view of an Orthodox church in Egina island. This church was built followng Istambul's St. Sophia's model. The temperature at that moment was of 41 degrees Celsius! Fortunately the buses had airco!


Later that day, we had some snacks at a typical Greek taverna!


Back in Athens, we enjoyed the hospitality of my very dear friends Ada and Panos. It was also the first time I met Ilida, her one year old daughter. We really had fun together at their lovely appartment, where we had a very good taste of the traditional mediterranean diet (maybe i tasted too much of it! But nothing as home made food! Thanks Ada and Panos)


Finally, and to close, here you have a nice view of Athens, Syntagma Square, the Accropolis, and the Pireaus Port, by night from Likabettus Hill.


Blessing to all!

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Saturday, July 14, 2007

Visiting Paris with Mom

With Place de la Concorde behind.


Montmartre

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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Mom is visiting



I have not had too much time to blog, because my mom arrived on Sunday April 24th, and se will stay for six weeks. It is indeed a blessing to have her at home. We did some visits to Brussels, Gent (of course) and Brugges. Finally, i got some pictures to share at this blog. The first picture is of one walk next to the Coupure River, close to the University, in Ghent of course.


The following picture is at the Station of Drongen, in front of my place. As you can see, all these pictures were taken during the rare sunshine periods, since it has been raining heavily almost all the previous weeks. Yesterday, we visited Brugges, so the next pictures are a selection of the places we've seen. We did of course some shopping in Brugges!


Mom on the train


Mom at the Begijnhof of Brugges


Mom in the Begijnhof's cloister


Mom at the GroteMarkt (the central square in Brugges)


Mom in front of the Stadhuis in Brugges

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