lyon

Early morning. Flix bus to Lyon. Left bags and huff puffed my way up to the Odeon, the 19cAD Gallo Roman theatre. Small, only 1800 seating ;)  A centre for three Gauls. Thursday is free entry. Today is Thursday! The Airbnn was close by and I walked to the Roman theatre

Lille la piscine

They made a museum out of a swimming pool. Every 15 minutes, they play a clip with children splashing shouting in the swimming pool. There's Ceramics, sculptures, paintings, a fabric c exhibition and then there was the 

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Textile motifs

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busy busy

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and this believe it or not is a Picasso!

textile museum lille

Lace loom, 4 shuttles 1835

yarns

jaquard loom 1860 automatic 1.5 m per hour, 50 picks per minute

:) Shuttles 

Textike Art 

automatic shuttle change - stops when warpnis done

card maker

Surface design

warping machine

jaquard

traditional shaft loom

love the chairs :)

lille

Church bells, local market, olives, veggies, haggle haggle,

All All of it ...bustling with what it is to be human 

consumers!

Gent

Ghent

Near Duivelsteen

And the humans who live here

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Street (sm)Art

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Cathedral Ghent - Ivory...the whole white tusk is a candle holder

Wishing fire

In Bruges

1631-1456 vintage of houses

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Marketplace

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Organ playing Live...reverberating through the stories on the stained glass in the church. 

horse drawn tours

The street smells of fresh baked bread. 

Walkabout. Shoe stores. Boutiques. Upmarket.

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@market square

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For warm days

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Crowd sourcing

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Smell of Waffles...Belgian chocolate and cinnamon

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Yellow afternoon

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Burg

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Theres local lace and woodwork pieces in the open market across the canal

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The one that houses michaelangelo. Church said to have stood from 900CE through a fire and being auctioned off during the French revolution.

Painted graves in the middle ages 

What does death mean...in life or is it just to the living?

How close in life? How close in death? 

Tomb of Mary of Burgundy and Duke of Burgundy 

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The only MichalAngelo in his lifetime to go out of Italy. Was to be never moved. But was. By Nepoleon for a museum in Paris. It was brought back. Then again by Hitler for the Linz collection. It was saved and is now home here...In Bruges.

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The best part of bruges