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- View of the Castle Beloeil from original entry – note weather
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- Entering castle outer gate
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- Entering into the castle
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- Grand staircase – about the time it was announced no photos inside the chateau
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- View of courtyard from inside the chateau
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- Walking around part of the construction area
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- A little rose wine at the laundromat with Mike and Margarite
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- Mons loop ride: Grand Hornu, 19th century coal mining establishment
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- Phillipe our guide at the Grand Hornu
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- Another part of the ellipse
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- The way the Grand Hornu looked in the 19th century
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- Steve and Karen, Pennywise leaders
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- Notice the tandems parked on the side of this Grand Hornu building
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- An area not restored
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- The houses built for the coal miners
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- Art installation along the rail trail
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- More rail trail art
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- Trail art
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- Trail art
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- Church in Mons seen from trail
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- One of Van Gogh’s sketches while in the Mons area
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- The house where Van Gogh lived while in Mons
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- New train station under construction
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- Collegiate Saint Waudru
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- Inside the church
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- Organ in the church, also notice the Foucault pendulum
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- Mons belfry
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- Grand-Place
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- Notice the interesting wire bench
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- Our hotel in Mons, Hotel Dream
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- Back of Hotel Dream notice stained glass windows
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- We can see the belfry from our bedroom
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- Six steps down from the bathroom to the bed
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- Stained glass window in the stairwell of the hotel
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- Group dinner appetizer: croquettes and vegetable soup
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- Seafood salad
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- Baked fish with eggplant and potatoes
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- Yummy dessert
Way too many photos for these 2 days – and slow internet. Our ride to Waterloo, October 4, will have to wait….
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