Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yum! I did happen to know that this was Belgium?s national day - because of the Tour de France coverage! Cycling can be broadening! :-) Belgium is high on my list for a visit in the next few years. Thank you! Adam > On 2017 Jul 20, at 10:19 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > > Most of you are probably unaware, but today is Belgium?s national day, > commemorating the installation of Leopold I as the first king of > independent Belgium on July 21, 1831. > > So I wish my Belgian friends a nice long weekend, and lots of this: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-tJsjg2V/A > > Belgium is not a big powerful country, and people from larger places like > France tend to make fun of it (?name a famous Belgian? jokes etc.). But > having lived as an adult in Denmark, USA, Belgium, Switzerland, the > Netherlands and now Spain, I must say that of those six countries, Belgium > had the best quality of life, all things considered, and I immensely enjoy > my frequent trips back to Brussels. No, I am not moving back there, but I > sometimes still regret my decision to take a job in Switzerland back in > 2000.