Made friends w local Bruges gentleman who are dressing up for the Procession of the Holy Blood ✝️🩸
They will have 3 lives camels 🐪 🐫 🐪
Three large Sections: Old Testament, Life of Jesus & New Testament
They showed me their Procession props: banners, staves & palms
Dinner at Zet’Joe, Bruges Belgium
Culinary Artist, Chef Geertt Van Hocke, cheeses from Belgium and France paired with a raisin & apple chutney severed prior to dessert, and our maître d'hôtel, Phillip pours a sweet Madeira wine for us
Dinner at Zet’Joe, Bruges Belgium
Culinary Artist, Chef Geertt Van Hocke, fourth offering, Cod w roasted fennel, potatoes medallions dressed with pesto, dill and butter sauce, accompanied by sautéed cabbage & spinach
Dinner at Zet’Joe, Bruges Belgium
Culinary Artist, Chef Geertt Van Hocke, thirdly served Spring “veal” lamb, sweetbreads sautéed in graisse de canard, spiced lamb tongue sausage, and lamb 🐑 shoulder w floral cut carrots, broccoli cauliflower & chives, in lamb fat and cream
Dinner at Zet’Joe, Bruges Belgium
Culinary Artist, Chef Geertt Van Hocke, third dish, seasonal white asparagus with hollandaise sauce, local grey shrimp from the North Sea ride a top an asparagus flan
Dinner at Zet’Joe, Bruges Belgium
Culinary Artist, Chef Geertt Van Hocke,
starts with green apple slices cradling goat cheese bathed in mild red pepper sauce
And steak tartar with white/green onions & waffle potato crisp
Belfry in #Bruges#Belgium
The city carillonneur Wim Berteloot, plays the 47 bells of the carillon to prepare the townsfolk for the holy day of the Ascension of Christ and the beginning of the Procession of the Holy Blood, 🇧🇪 Heilig Bloed Processie ✝️🩸
Onze-Lieve, Church of our Lady in #Bruges#Michelangelo’s #Madonna and child only one of his masterpieces outside of Italy
Tombs of Mary of #Burgundy and her husband Charles the Bold lie behind the altar in their own chapel
Brugges #Belgium 🇧🇪
#BourgogneDeFlandres my favorite beer & brewery, made friends with the bartender & brewer, I was lucky enough to get a small tour of the open fermentation & original historic laboratory for the brewery
#Bruges#Belgium#BlendedAle 🇧🇪
Grave of D’Artagnan, one of the Three #Musketeers
In 1673, the French were considered as invaders of Louis 14th and were led by Musketeer D’Artagnan ⚔️
He fought at this bastion to take the city of #Maastricht, but lost his own life
#Netherlands, #Limburg Province