Remembering the Past

[akirlu]

I'm chugging away at getting more of the photos from our summer trip to Ireland, England, and Belgium uploaded and edited. Holy crap, I guess I did take a lot of pictures.



Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Michaelangelo's Madonna



I do love me some religious death imagery. Dunno why, just like skulls I guess.





Just some potted flowers, spotted while we were lunching at Merveilleux



At Merveilleux, lovely little lunch spot in Bruges



Town Square in Bruges - the amazing cloudscapes followed us over from Dublin

Comments

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

I'm planning to go to Bruges in June, and am hoping to see the Madonna. Especially, I'll shamelessly admit, after watching Monuments Men. :) (I have read the book, too.)

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, the Church of Our Lady was not terribly crowded when we were there in August, so getting in to see the Madonna should not be a problem at all. Bruges is an amazing town, every turn uncovers a new tableau or vista, and it's hard to get a bad meal. Definitely do take the municipally run canal tour, and the brewery tour if you have any interest in beer or beer-making at all, or want a view over the city that does not require quite such a commitment as the city hall bell tower.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Those are lovely!

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you. I wish we'd had more time in Bruges. We only took a couple of days and it easily could have supported more, from my point of view.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Skulls are cool. I'm shocked that I don't have a skull userpic.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yes, they are cool. I'm a bit sad that I got rid of the two sugar skulls I had bought in Mexico, now, but I guess there will be other skulls. Think Geek currently has some very nifty skull ice-cube molds, which can probably also be used for things like sugar or chocolate...

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

If I ever get back to Westminster Abbey, I will try to wear a hidden camera!

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Why a hidden camera, particularly?

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

Because photography is forbidden and there were scores of bits and juxtapositions I wanted.
Why are the (Fabian) Webbs in the middle of a bunch of Prime Ministers? All the scientific geniuses literally at Newton's feet is spectacular. And the Hebrew I discovered, which turned out to be the wives of one of Cromwell's main guys, who was quite a linguist. Below the row of Henrys is James Watt, who may have done more to shape England than any of them. As you leave the little side room containing Elizabeth I, you're face to face with Cecil Rhodes; birth and perigee of Empire.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Huh, forbidden eh? That's weird. It's certainly not at any of the churches I was in in England. Admittedly, this was pre-9/11 so the stupidity may have gone up since then.