A trip into town

Yesterday I spent the day in town with Natalie and Alina. We took the train to Brussels-central which is a 20 minute trip from Waterloo. There we did almost all the things you must do or try when you're in Brussels. 

           First we walked from Grand Place to Mannikin Pis which is the most famous statue in Europe. Then, since Belgium is the inventor of French fries, which is kinda a misleading name, we had to try them and ate our lunch at the Mannikin Fries. Another famous Belgian food is the Belgian waffle, which is served best with Belgian chocolate in my opinion. They serve waffles all over town and it smells of waffles everywhere. We walked around, shopping and looking at things before going to the Ponti café, which is a really cozy place that serves Belgian coffee and has a great assortment of Barquettes (small baguettes), Ice cream and different desserts.

            Brussels is an amazing city because it's so full of life and a lot of happenings everywhere. There are street performances with people playing instruments, singing or doing football tricks for example. A bunch of people walked around with a sign saying "Hug an exchange student today" and offered hugs to everyone they passed. And one time when we visited Brussels there was a boxing match going on outside the La Monnaie De Munt. And on top of that the city is beautiful with its amazing architecture.

                  

Autumn in Belgium

Hello there! I haven't updated the blog in a while now but today after our history lesson I took out Alina on a photo shoot walk around the school. It was one of the first cold days here today. Last week it was really sunny and 24 degrees in the shadow on sunday. I'm not complaining since I've heard it's been around 7 degrees back home. Life in the castle is good! 

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School trip to France

I've just come back to the boarding from a three day school trip to northern France. All of the gymnasium students and IB students left Brussels at 8.15 Wednesday morning.
    First we went to the somme 1916 underground museum, in Albert. There we could experience life underground during the war and learned about the trenches during WWI. In Albert there is the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Brebières and during WWI the virgin Mary statue on top of the basilica was bombed and hanged by only a few wires and it was said that when the statue fell the war would be over. Later that day we visited the New Foundland memorial park, which was established in remembrance of the men from New Foundland who fought in WWI.
    On Thursday we spend the whole morning walking through the muddy seafloor of the Baie de somme. From le Crotoy to Saint Valéry. The tides in the area make it possible to walk across the bay at times and the people there use the bay for both fishing and collecting plants.
  Thursday evening we visited the Chateau de Rambures, a castle that looked like something from a fairytale.
   Today we were on a guided tour around the city of Amiens before heading back to Brussels.

Objects found on fields after the war, there are still things and bodies being found every year.

Rebuilt basilika and Virgin Mary statue.

Caribu facing the British front line

Trenches

Most of the soldiers never got any further than this tree.

Panoramic view over the battlefield

Town of le Crotoy

Chateau de Rambures

A goat outside the castle

Amiens Cathedral a world heritage site, more than twice as big as the Notre Dame in Paris.