Showing posts with label Travel Preludes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travel Preludes. Show all posts
Monday, September 14, 2020

From 2005: "TRAVEL PRELUDES: Poperinge and a date with Westvleteren."

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I'm sore because the pandemic postponed Poperinge's Beer and Hop Festival, and so this week I'll be flooding the blog pages with...

From 2017: "TRAVEL PRELUDES: Ieper ... Ypres ... Wipers; the Great War and a passing of generations."

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The Cloth Hall in Ieper (Ypres), with St. Martin's Cathedral behind it. Everything you see here was a hole in the ground in 1918.  ...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

TRAVEL PRELUDES: These are the good old days.

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At the age of 57, it isn't quite the same as for this twenty-something, although I can't tell you how much I appreciate the sentimen...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

TRAVEL PRELUDES: Finally, a chance to visit the Jopenkerk -- a Haarlem brewery in a church, and with gruit beer.

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In far-off olden times, a "Jopen" in Haarlem was a wooden barrel of roughly 30 American gallons, used to transport beer from bu...
Friday, September 22, 2017

TRAVEL PRELUDES: Herring, preferably by the tail.

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That's what I'm saying: Rotterdam style. Dredge the filet in chopped onion, grasp the tail, and down the hatch it goes. Rick St...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

TRAVEL PRELUDES: An eagle's nest, a tasting room; a study in brown.

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At the precise moment of this post's pre-set publication, we're likely eating breakfast in Haarlem, a city that is much to my lik...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

TRAVEL PRELUDES: Haarlem's awesome Cafe Briljant is winding down (for now), but not before I have another drink there.

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Are you going to have another beer? Boris, my friend and original Haarlem connection, long ago introduced me to his preferred local pub...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

TRAVEL PRELUDES: Ieper ... Ypres ... Wipers; the Great War and a passing of generations.

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The three segments of this decade-old documentary --  Geert Mak's  In Europa  ... "1915 Ieper"  -- last only 40 minut...
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Monday, September 18, 2017

TRAVEL PRELUDES: For a town so small, Watou packs a big gustatory punch.

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It was in the year 2000 that our little band of bicycling bar buddies went for the first time to Belgium to ride. We came to Poperinge fr...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

TRAVEL PRELUDES: The Talbot House in Poperinge, where the ghosts congregate.

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Every three years, Poperinge's hop festival concludes on a Sunday afternoon during harvest season with an inspirational, and thankful...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

TRAVEL PRELUDES: Poperinge and a date with Westvleteren.

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I harbor a great deal of affection for the town of Poperinge, to which I was introduced way back in 1998. I'd organized a motorcoach t...
Friday, September 15, 2017

TRAVEL PRELUDES: Mechelen, with a side of Gouden Carolus.

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2014. Mechelen is located north of Brussels, situated roughly equidistant between the capital and Antwerp. This historic city of 82,00...