Sometimes people ask me what there is to see in my area. So I've been sharing pictures of our fields (specially the flowery season) to these people that ask me. Now there are other things to do then fields... but yeah, my area is largely fields. There are some cities where there are activities, but being from a rural area it's just not that exciting to most foreigners as a big city.
But there are some other pictures that always get a "wow" responds. They are the pictures of a little metal church that was build in 2011 by an architect/artist called "Gijs Van Vaerenbergh". So because most people went "wow", I'll share the pictures (wich are not mine) here too. The project was called: "Reading between the lines", and it has gotten a fair amount of media attention and won some prices.
You can find an article/introduction to the little monument over here: https://www.archdaily.com/298693/reading-between-the-lines-gijs-van-vaerenbergh https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/detail/reading-between-the-lines-for-a-church-made-of-metal_o (I also got most of the pictures from the first article)
... oh yeah. It's in the middle of a field :D
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@Loretta78 Kan goed zijn... van uit Limburg ben je snel in Duitsland. En Noord-Limburgs dialect bezit veel Duitse klanken. Belgisch Limburg en Nederlands Limburg liggen allemaal kort bij Duitsland.
@Loretta78 Belgisch Limburg is altijd een beetje een buitenbeentje geweest. Nauwe banden met Luik/Lüttich aan de zuidkant, en dus Franse invloeden. Aan de noordkant nauwe banden met Nederlands Limburg dat geperst zit als een dunne strook tussen Belgisch Limburg en Duitsland. Mits heel die kant aan de Maas zich verbonden voelt, heb je daar Duitse invloeden.
(I am sorry but it is a little bit exhausting for me to continue in Netherlands because I don´t speak it very well; so let me change to English again) 😅:
Sadly I don´t know my father´s site well at all. And although there still live relatives in Belgium/Limburg - but there´s cero contact.
But I am planning to make in the next years a little vacation in Limburg so that I know the place where my father comes from. 😐
@Loretta78 No worries, english is fine for me. I could meet you halfway in German, but that would be pretty bad. I can make myself understandable by using dutch words and speaking them out with a german accent. But my understanding is pretty good. It's just when you get to specific words that I never heared before that things get difficult. But ussually I'm able to follow the normal German interaction on the street and even in movies or political debates. That doesn't mean I get everything, but with context I can construct what is going on to a high degree. I wouldn't trust my German if I needed to be specific with people though.
Limburg is ussually not a big touristic place. But when people come over here, they come to walk and ride a bicycle. There is still some nice nature and our local governements invested in turning them into spots where you can easily ride your bike through without hurting the fauna and flora.
If you ever come over, let me know, maybe I can give you a couple of hints depending on what you like to do over here.
What part of Germanny are you from? Nordrhein Westfalen?
@Kwek00 Well, that´s a very simple thing. My parents moved from Belgium to Germany. And in Bavaria is my ancestor´s house. It´s about 500 years old. So that´s why I am here now where already generations of my German ancestors lived. 🙂
@Loretta78 I'm not sure if I would call it a dialect. I thought Bavaria had it's own language? Because of Germannies unnification, everyone was pushed to adopt the same German lingo, but for as far as I'm aware (and if I'm correct) Bavaria never really conformed.
@Loretta78 Well, at least Bavaria is where the beer is.
I've never been to Bavaria. But I did visit friends in other parts in Germanny. I still want to visit Berlin... but never did. I have pretty good meetings with people in Nordrhein-Westfallen. Like the mentality is fairly similair to what I encounter in my province. I also had some good contacts with people in Frankfurt. Germans in general, are pretty easy going in general if you keep to your agreements.
@Kwek00 I have lived for 7 years in Berlin, and as a kid I have lived in Nordrhein-Westfalen. And in the age of 18 I have lived for a few months in Frankfurt. 😅
