Marching bands at the Heksenstoet in Beselare
Bouncy festival entertainment
As promised the second clip of Ramparts cemetery, maintained by the CWGC. This clip starts with the view across the Ieper moat, pans across the cemetery and ends on the Cross of Sacrifice.
I am very interested in history, especially military history and as Ieper (Ypre) and it's surrounding battle fields, from The Great War (World War 1), are not too distant from where I live, I visit this region often. Doing this I visit many cemeteries of a military nature and so these will pop up from time to time on this blog. This and the next post will show two clips of the very small but evocative CWGC cemetery of Ramparts, which is set into the remnants of the old medieval defensive system around the old town of Ieper.
The Flemish are famous for some of their unusual sporting pastimes, competition smoking, wooden cheese rolling, things like that. This one is a very sensible sport though, it should be part of the 2012 Olympics. Basically a beer balancing device, with a 25cl (about a half pint) glass of beer is connected to a stationary bicycle and well, watch the clip to find out :)
Starting off looking down a street at Lille's main town War Memorial (there will be a photo or two of that in the next post), this clip is a pan around the Grand Place in Lille, showing life going on in an normal, weekday sort of way. The next and last post in this little series will show some photographs of this area of the city.
This is the first of a three post series, about the Grand Place (Town Square) In Lille, there will be two clips and some photos. As you can see, in the clip, this is a pro am production. I am the am with my little tourist camcorder recording this scene from some steps, if you look to the left of the buskers you will see the pro, someone with some serious video kit. I feel a bit outclassed but at least I did not get some old guy in a white shirt doing his best to ruin my shot.
