Expansion
EN – April 22, 2015: one hundred years after the first gas attack in history we had wreaths in Boezinge near Ypres, and at the Brooding Soldier in Langemark. A […]
Tag Archives: Canada
Safety in Numbers
“Not what is counted, no, what is recounted is remembered” (Gunter Grass) EN – The number of the fallen. The number of the missing. The number of the graveyards. The […]
Newspaper boys
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, […]
70 Years of Peace
EN – Last Friday the statement popped up once again during dinner with some friends. Surely, since World Wars I and II, we in Europe have come a long way. […]
Canadian Allies
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 […]
Halifax, CA
EN – Nova Scotia is pretty much the easternmost part of Canada. The province jumps forward in the Atlantic Ocean like a bridgehead to Europe nearly twice the size […]
Poetry and Banknotes
EN – “Have a close look at our ten dollar banknote, it’s written even there.” Indeed. Scribbled very small, flanked by some poppies, I can just barely read it: […]
