Sunday 21 December 2014

Asterix the Gaul? no way Ambiorix the Belgae!

Good to meet this chap in a Tongeren square...
Ambiorix
Dead impressive..(was he good with his hands?)... and amazing to know that the Belgians had sort of forgotten him until casting about for old Belgian heroes when they became independent in 1830... and lo, here he is truly heroic to the last! He even impressed J Caesar himself...


...with suitable Christmas decoration... wonder what he'd think of that!?

Great to be back in Tongeren - the oldest city in Belgium, which J.Caesar would have known.
Lovely theatre, and good to have all of the adults in the Weerts family - sorry Jo, that's you too... an honorary Weerts!  The younger members of the family were working/playing hard!

Then on to Leopoldsburg, where we had not been for 10 years... very good to re-visit there... Peter and his team looked after us well.

A quick jaunt to The Netherlands this AM... for an early-feeling concert at 11AM.. we survived!
Another new place... De Schalm at Veldhoven... excellently warm crowd delighting in CHristmas spirit...
Steve did his Elvis, of course.... and then in the evening a full show of Elvis impersonation... we like to do warm-up for other acts....

Just one more to go tonight pre-Christmas... we are in the beautiful city of Lier... not much time to look around sadly...

We're nearly there...



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