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Belgium

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Not so appealing from outside, Antwerp station- total mess, traffic everywhere, dust and chaos

Ruben's house Antwerp satyr spandrels bearing Latin mottos, Olympian deities- Mercury and Minerva tower above the portico to signify house is a temple of knowledge dedicated to art.

C'mon it's Ruben's house, bulging bellies, thunderous thighs - no delicate elegant maidens here!

Ruben's house Antwerp - posing threateningly- but keeping his pants (err fig leaf) on- somehow.

Curio cabinet Ruben's house Antwerp, gorgeous house sumptuous leather covered walls, delicately glazed majolica, intricate wood carvings- yep pays to be a court artist! ruben composed these scenes from ovid's Metamorphoses. Meleager gives Atlanta a boar

17C Rubenhuis Antwerp - expanded by Ruben inspired by the Roman style - main arch is a direct reference to michelangelo's gate design (porta pia in the Aurelian walls)

Stadsfeestzaal - rebuilt in the neoclassical style of its original 20C structure burnt down in 20C. Marble and mosaic extravaganza city festival hall - actually mainly a boring shopping centre

Antwerp - David Teniers 17C artist begged to receive royal honours citing , was then knighted on condition he'd give up selling his paintings... He didn'tt of course!

Arches columns balustrades marble glass iron - Antwerp station is architecturally more interesting than than its functional port.

Deserted 19C Antwerpen

Antwerp station,- 4 levels of iron glass and stone, fab railway architecture (not by twerps)

Lord uxbridge's leg - wooden peg- Waterloo

Imprisoned Wellington - beyond napoleon quatra bras and the knotted rope

Lost and found. Here lies Lord Uxbridge's leg - by god sir I think I've lost my leg- by god sir I thinks you have.

Staring down a smoking barrel

Waterloo battlefields - the eagle has landed...

Prince d'orange wounded here- a teapot handle... Le Lyon Waterloo

Kneel warrior kneel to-morrow's sun may see thy course of glory run...(Seargent Edward Cotton) and hougoumont was a diversionary tactic .

Site of Wellington's infantry squares that faced Ney now a panoramic circle 3.35 pm June 18 1815

There are those of peasant stock but then there are those that are leading beacons... Hats off to Blucher at 73 at Waterloo

Le butte de Lyon - at waterloo, faces threatening towards France (hollande- eat your heart out...)

A good day for the Tet offensive... Grand Place Brussels. Staying alive. Lonesome traveller. Lonely horseman.

A grand place - Brussels. Who says I didn't have a May Bank holiday!

Staying alive. Grand Place. Brussels.