Heritage Day
EN – A dilemma: should I go to Antwerp or stay in Leuven with my small collection of documents and pictures on WW1? During our Flanders Heritage Day, both cities […]
Missouri Mules
EN – Evening in Kansas City, at the bar of our hotel. Liliane and I are approached by two gentlemen of an indefinite age. Are we there for The Game, […]
The Machine
EN – I’m back from Kansas City, USA. In the company of my New York colleagues I attended the ‘The Great War Centennial’ conference organised by the National World War […]
The Survivors
EN – The woman in the center, black and sharp, stands alone and upright amidst the burden that is surrounding her. Behind her, to the left, the bent and weakened […]
At ITB Trade Fair
EN – ITB Berlin is the biggest tourism trade fair, especially if you take the occupied surface as a reference. At the Flanders’ booth, March 8th has been declared ‘First […]
Reading Max Deauville
EN – If you’re looking for a good book on the war in Belgium, you should try ‘Tot aan de IJzer’ (French: Jusqu’à l’Yser – not available in English) of […]
Inviting the Germans
EN – The ‘Belgische Botschaft’ – the Belgian embassy in Berlin – is situated in a fine contemporary building in a quiet street, a stone’s throw away from the […]
First Last Post
EN – This evening, after a meeting, I wait in the streets of Ieper to experience my first ‘Last Post’. Minutes before 8 pm groups of secondary school pupils assemble […]
Prudent
EN – My elder sister is the guardian of our family history. Our parents and grandparents entrusted her with their memories. Nobody knows better than her who was aunt or […]
Nostalgia
EN – To tell the truth I had no time at all for it, but I couldn’t resist to attend the press meeting on the exhibitions to be set up […]
my great war / mijn groote oorlog 