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What we do to prepare for the Centenary

Intercontinental Cooking

03/02/2015by leawinkeler Leave a comment

EN – My regular supermarket has no golden syrup on its shelves. There are no coconut flakes to be found either (raped coconut, yes, but that’s different). I have an […]

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September

04/09/2014by leawinkeler Leave a comment

EN – A new school year starts. The annual market and fun fair is nearing. In my hometown the Centenary of The Great War is ending. Like in 1914, attention […]

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Newspaper boys

12/08/2014by leawinkeler Leave a comment

EN – We’re still recovering from our first major communications action: the distribution by ‘newspaper boys’ of our ‘Flanders Fields Post’. History, interviews, articles on what to see in Flanders, […]

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READY

03/08/2014by leawinkeler Leave a comment

EN – When I’m organising a gathering of friends, the last hour before the event I tend to be pretty nervous. While all has been put in place – the […]

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Hints

09/04/2014by leawinkeler Leave a comment

EN – That’s how they look like. Files, meticulously classified in Veerle’s drawer. What they really are: 23 project proposals for remembrance events in Flanders during the years 2016 to […]

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Surfacing

18/02/2014by leawinkeler Leave a comment

  EN – Innumerable people and organizations in Flanders have been preparing for the Centenary and for the many guests that are expected to be visiting. At Visit Flanders we […]

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Visuals

04/02/2014by leawinkeler Leave a comment

EN – While we were quick in finding our slogan (Flanders Fields. A place to remember), it proved complicated to create the visual to go with it. We started out […]

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Canadian Allies

05/12/2013by leawinkeler Leave a comment

EN – May I present you our new Canadian allies: Christine (Taste of Nova Scotia) en Doug (ACOA). They dragged me along through Halifax for a few days, with the […]

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…Lift Off! (Countdown to WTM)

05/11/2013by leawinkeler 1 Comment

Well, we all survived day 1 at WTM and what a day it was! We opened our brand new stand, welcomed the nearly 40 participants from Flanders, had our networking event in the evening, received our Tourism […]

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One… (Countdown to WTM)

03/11/2013by leawinkeler Leave a comment

EN – … and packing! Anja, Michel, Jan and Hilde have taken care of the Real Logistics: our stand, brochures, films, etc etc are already in London since last week. […]

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