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WALLONIA (Fr: WALLONIE)

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Friday 26 July 2002

DAY Namur Wa, Dinant Wa

NIGHT Dinant Wa

Be Wa Namur. Bronze sculptures in front of Bourse de Commerce, Place d'Armes. "DJOSEPH ET FRANCWES", D'Apres les personages crées par Jean Legrand; Sculptures de Suzanne Godard; Realisée par Les Altiers des Arts de Feu; December 2000.

Be Wa Namur. Cathédrale St-Aubain, 1751.

Be Wa Namur. Cathédrale St-Aubain, 1751. Interior, Choeur. "Presentation de la Vierge au Temple", Jacques NICOLAI (1605-1678). Partially out of view to the left is "La Cène", also by Nicolai.

Be Wa Namur. Tour St-Jacques and Bourse de Commerce. NNW 66 1030.

Be Wa. House along D971 between Sosoye and Anhée. SE 78 1430.

Be Wa Falaën. Ruins of Château Montaigle (XIII-XVI century). NE 81 1445.

Be Wa Dinant. Church of Notre-Dame, with The Citadel, above. ENE 86 1515. Most of the boats tied up this day along the River Meuse had Dutch city names painted on their sterns.

Be Wa Dinant. Church of Notre-Dame, interior. Free concert by (Russian) String Quartet "Inspiration", which excellent program included Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary and Ravel's Bolero. They were looking for opportunities to work professionally; found it very difficult to get into the U S. Contact in Belgium: String Quartet of the Moscow Concervatory, Hotel Moulin de Lisogne, Rue de la Lisonette, Lisogne, Dinant B-5501. Tel (32) 82.226380; (32) 82.222147. In Russia, Tel (Dimitry) (7) 095.3336992; (Kirill) (7) 903.7628637; Fax (7) 095.2469409. mailto:DIMON1974@yahoo.com. These musicians were really VERY good.

Saturday 27 July 2002

DAY Dinant Wa

NIGHT Champlon Wa

Be Wa Dinant. View from the bridge in the center of town. NW 74 0900.

Be Wa Dinant. View along N95, leaving Dinant behind. SE 74 0930. In the U S, for the sake of the roadway, this rock sentinel would probably have been dynamited, and the bits and pieces hauled away. In southern Belgium, it is carefully preserved as a flag-topped monument.

Be Wa Celles-Houyet. Château de Vêves. The present building dates from 1410, with interiors from the 16th century. It is still in the posession of the family who had it built, the Beauforts. Restored 1969. SSW 80 1015.

Be Wa Celles-Houyet. Château de Vêves. Interior courtyard. N 74 1045.

Be Wa Celles-Houyet. Château de Vêves. Interior. Salle 'La Tour du Pin', restored 1994.

Be Wa Celles-Houyet. Castle neighboring Château de Vêves, also owned by the Beaufort Family. E 82 1145.

Be Wa Celles. Romanesque collegiate church of Saint-Hadelin (XI century). WSW 90 1230.

Be Wa Eprave. Auberge du 'Vieux Moulin'.

Be Wa Lavaux-Sainte-Anne (Rochefort). Château Lavaux-Sainte-Anne. Feudal, XV and XVII centuries. SSW 98 1515.

Be Wa St-Hubert. In this area, little fields of wheat and corn are carved out of the forest. The town stands on a plateau in the heart of one of the most heavily forested areas of the Ardennes. Basilique St-Hubert. Mostly 16th-century, with a crypt 500 years older, and a new (1731) facade. ESE 86 1615.

Be Wa St-Hubert. Basilique St Hubert. Mostly 16th-century, with a crypt 500 years older, and a new (1731) facade. Interior.

Be Wa. Along a small road between Beaulieu and Hives. NW 85 1830.

Be Wa Nadrin-Houffalize. Belvédère des Six Ourthes. View from the tower above the Upper Ourthe River Valley. E 88 1915.

Be Wa Nadrin-Houffalize. Belvédère des Six Ourthes. View from the tower above the Upper Ourthe River Valley. W 88 1915.

Be Wa La Roche-en-Ardenne. NNE 78 2030.

Sunday 28 July 2002

DAY Champlon Wa

NIGHT Namur Wa

Be Wa. Along N89 between Champlon and La Roche-en-Ardenne. Modern commercial architecture--L S Frais, "Excellence in Slicing and Packaging". NNW 74 0900.

Be Wa. Along N89 between Champlon and La Roche-en-Ardenne. Modern commercial architecture--L S Frais, "Excellence in Slicing and Packaging". NW 74 0900.

Be Wa La Roche-en-Ardenne. N 76 0930.

The German travelers in Belgium and the Belgians seem to delight in the crash of the USDollar to par with the Euro.

In southern Belgium, bread (white AND brown), instead of that wonderful French baguette, for breakfast. Still no meat (as in France), but we are compensated with a plate for our bread (in France, bread was dealt with directly on the table).

Be Wa Marcouray. Village flowers.

In WALLONIA they don't use numbers on their route signage. As there are usually multiple ways to get to a town, clarity would be improved by adding route numbers to road signs.

Be Wa Durbuy-sur-Orthe. The church (l) and Château Caerdinael. SSW 86 1215. In the town, Famille CAERDINAEL owns the castle, 5 hotels and the gourmet restaurant 'Le Sanglier des Ardennes', run by chef/owner Maurice Caerdinael (b 1937, Antwerp).

Be Wa Durbuy-sur-Orthe. Viewed from Belvédère des Crêtes. NNW 86 1445.

Be Wa Durbuy-sur-Orthe. Viewed from Belvédère des Crêtes. WNW 86 1445. The little (10.000 sq m) Parc des Topiaires costs EUR4.50 to visit. (By contrast, the 1.800+ acres of park and formal gardens at Versailles costs EUR3 to visit.)

Be Wa Durbuy-sur-Orthe. Viewed from Belvédère des Crêtes. NNW 86 1445.

Be Wa Durbuy-sur-Orthe. Château Caerdinael. SSE 88 1515.

Be Wa Durbuy-sur-Orthe. Château Caerdinael. ESE 94 1530.

Be Wa Septon (Durbuy). Château de Petite Somme, a Hare Krishna property. NNE 94 1630. While the site has hosted castles since the 11th-century, this 13th-century-neo-early-gothic-style gem dates from 1888. The Radhadesh Hare Krishna sect purchased the castle and it's remaining 15 acres (diminished from 400 when originally in aristocratic hands) in 1980, and expanded the estate to 45+ acres. It is a community of 80 adherents. http://www.radhadesh.com

Be Wa Septon (Durbuy). Château de Petite Somme, a Hare Krishna property. WNW 98 1630. http://www.radhadesh.com

At the Hare Krishna Summer Festival, for EUR10 you get a guided tour of the château, complete run of the grounds, and a vegetarian meal. Open 'till 10 p m. To an Indian-looking woman at one entrance to the grounds, I explained that I must be in Namur by 6 p m. "So go on in for a short while--for 5 euros," she replied. A Nederlander at another entrance, when like-wise informed, made no offer whatsoever. It was EUR10.

Near the main entrance to the grounds, a plump, tall man was arranging things beneath the open hatch of a 70s-era dirty-brown, American station wagon. He was, perhaps, 55, with thin, long hair poorly covering a large, otherwise bald head, and sported many gold-colored chains around his neck beneath an open brown Nehru shirt. Swinging outside of the wrinkled, un-tucked shirt was a large peace symbol, also on a gold chain. The woman behind him, waiting silently for him to finish so they could enter and join the festivities, was quite a few years younger, nicely dressed, with well-coiffed, short flaxen hair.

Be Wa. View along N983 between Havelange and Ohey. NNE 95 1700.

Be Wa Haltinne. Along rue du Centre off N921. Château de Haltinne. "Monument Classe 1635 by Gérard de Groesbeek". WSW 94 1730.

Be Wa Haltinne. Along rue de Haltinne off N921. Château de Haltinne. "Monument Classe 1635 by Gérard de Groesbeek". SW 94 1730.

Be Wa Haltinne. Along rue de Haltinne off N921. Château de Haltinne. "Monument Classe 1635 by Gérard de Groesbeek". ESE 94 1730.

Be Wa Haltinne. Along rue de Haltinne off N921. Château de Haltinne. "Monument Classe 1635 by Gérard de Groesbeek". SSW 92 1745.

Be Wa Bonneville. Château de Bonneville. WNW 94 1800.

Be Wa Bonneville. Château de Bonneville. SSE 94 1800.

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