Belgium Bike & Barge April 2013

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Day 1: we meet the Fleur near Brussels	Aboard the Fleur, Kees and Gijs confer with Alan and Ron	Across the canal	The deck of the Fleur: the bikes await
Off to Brussels: Statue of Don Quixote/Sancho Panza	Charles Buls, 19th century mayor of Brussels, and his dog	Mont des Arts	Museum of Musical Instruments: A fine example of Art Nouveau
Belgium's Constitutional Court	Window at the Magritte Museum	Royal Museum of Fine Arts	The Wedding Dance by Pieter Bruegel the Younger
Susan on the Mont des Arts	Back to the Fleur: Jim and Rachel go aboard	Welcome by our guide Hans and our captain Gijs	"Dear friends..."
	Start of Day 2	Gijs and David W look on as the bikes are unloaded	Bike Instruction
	Our guide Chris at Breendonk Prison, an SS hell hole
Back on the Fleur at Willebroek: Scott	Billie, Sam, Mary and David L (l. to r.)	Sam	David L
Billie	Jerry and his son Alan	Hans	David W
Ron	Marci and David L	We enter a big lock into Antwerp harbor	Tom and Susan
Our great chef, Kees	Rachel and Kees: shopping list	Jerry	Rachel and Jim wave to tanker crew
Alan		Spire of Antwerp's Cathedral of Our Lady	Barbo throws the slain giant's severed hand into the Scheldt
Guild houses on the Grote Markt in Antwerp	Barbo flings the severed hand		Dark beer on tap at Den Engel
Gentrified old port area, Antwerp	MAS art museum, Antwerp	Ann, our Antwerp city guide	In front of Antwerp's City Hall
Nancy and Mary W	City Hall close-up		"The Stone", the only remnant of the fortifications that surrounded old Antwerp
Plantin-Moretus Museum of Printing in Antwerp	Courtyard of the Plantin-Moretus House	Arlene	Marci
Medieval passageway in Antwerp	Accompaniment to moules and frites	Statue of Mercator in his home town of Rupelmonde	"de Kaailopers", statue at Temse
Homestretch: time for a beer break	Susan hoists one	Susan and Jack	Day 6: from Baasrode to Ghent
Dendermonde	Belfry and Town Hall, Dendermonde	Grote Markt in Dendermonde	The Vleeshuis, Dendermonde
We cross the Schelde on a small ferry	Waiting for the ferryman	Lunch at Wetteren: the premature end of a very windy ride	Church of Saint Gertrude at Wetteren
Day 7: The Fleur heads for Bruges	Coffee break on the way to Bruges	The Begijnhof: housing for pious single or widowed women in Bruges
A canal in Bruges			Belfort: medieval bell tower (circa 1240)
	Spire of the Church of Our Lady	The Markt (Market Square) in Bruges
Provincial Court on the Markt		City Hall	The Madonna of Bruges by Michelangelo (1501-1504); in the Church of Our Lady

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