Welcome on the
official Website of Eddy Roelants
Find memories of travel journeys in written format, illustrated with
pictures and find interesting links to relevant websites related to travelling.
About myself you can find something on Intro
Picture Galleries and travel experiences are gathered under Travelling
Links to Websites from Friends or contributions from Friends to this website
are brought together under Friends. Reactions or
comments are wellcome here.
Some interesting, travel related links on the WWW are listed under Favorite
Links
Why not start with Bruges on my homepage?
Without any doubt Bruges is one of the most sympathic and authentic cities in
Europe and by coincidence I happen to live there!
Of course you can find almost
any information on the official
website of Bruges.
NEW: they just recently updated their
website with a "Live Map" using Microsoft Virtual Earth. Without any
installation necessary you obtain detailed aerial views on the city! See
example with the musea
link (click on "Live Map").
I just want to give you a very first introductory flavour with a few
pictures on my "home" page: the medieval Belfry, the typical boats on
the canals and the Beguinage, with the blooming Narcisses, also often called
"Easter Lilies" (picture taken on 25/03/2007).
Feel wellcome here and....just enjoy it !!!
Bruges and surroundings also offers tens -or better- hundreds of km of
marvellous bike roads through fascinating countrysides or along beautiful
shiny waters and canals, where you are often unexpectedly confronted by
all kinds of visual surprises that invite you to make a short stop and take a
picture as is illustrated below: a trinity of blue herons on the canal
Bruges-Ostend, some curious metallic constructions without any meaning (at
least to me) or someone with an original harp, playing a love melody at the
shores of the "Minnewater" (Love lake). Thus, take your time and
bike around.
It does not happen so frequently, but despite the climate change consequences,
the month of January 2009 was extremely cold. Even so cold (for Bruges at
least) that the canal Bruges-Damme was completely frozen AND it was allowed
for ice-scating (only for 1 day). Required minimum thickness of the ice has
to be 12 cm everywhere. So on January 11th 2009 about 30.000 people were
walking, scating, biking, ..... on the canal !
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