FLOWER CARPET ON THE GRAND'PLACE IN BRUSSELS

 Since 1986 a flower carpet is made on the Grand'Place in Brussels. 

The Flower Carpet is 70 m long by 24 m wide. 1,680 m² of begonias, dahlias, grass and bark.
A hundred volunteers assemble the carpet in less than six hours.
The first Flower Carpet of Brussels was created in 1971 and has been a showstopper every two years on the Grand-Place since 1986. It is exposed from August 12 to 15th. 

As it was so hot I thought I better watch on the Webcam of the Grand Place. As it should start on the 12, I  looked at the Webcam already at 6 pm on the 10th and what did I see :

the place half covered with a fabric or plastic

on the 11th morning it hadn't made a lot of progress !

 I thought they have to hurry up if it should be ready for the next day in the morning, but the Webcam showed me this at 11 am

But at 8 pm on the 11th, there was a start !

and at 10 am on the 12th it was finally ready and people arrived or were already there. The poor flowers in this heat ! There were not so many people probably because it started to get more and more hot. They probably arrive late afternoon or evening.

and this is the pattern of the 2022 carpet, the first one since 4 years ! Usually it's done each two years, but due to the Corona problems it had to wait !

On Sunday 35° are announced, clouds and a thunderstorm .... I sincerely hope the weatherman is wrong !

All pictures I took per screenshot and am quite happy about the result. (except the pattern of course)

CHAOS OR NOT YET ?

Yesterday was a big party going on the "Grand Place" of Brussels ! The buildings were all lightened with the UK flag colors.  Most of the people there regretted the Brexit and all together sang "Ce n'est qu'un aurevoir" (It's only a good bye) a Scottish song

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne?

Refrain
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup o'kindness yet
For auld lang syne

It was a mixture of all Belgians and UK citizens but also other Nationalities. Over 4000 English citizens became Belgian, and the number increases because they lived in Belgium since the UK joined the EU. They have their families here and only go on holidays to England. They don't want to take risk and be forced to return "home".

I watched the "Party" on TV.

All this is only theory, now we have to see how it works in practise .........











Manneken Pis










and a few cartoons













Get out of the way ! We close again !

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