MY WORLD - A little walk through Waterloo

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A little walk through Waterloo is also part of my world especially when the weather is nice and the sun is shining.



On the terrace of the restaurant or better "Brasserie" called " Les six colonnes" (the 6 columns) people enjoy their meal or just a glass of wine or beer.



If you like Belgian chocolate there are enough stores too



We still have some little vegetable shops which are also selling other stuff, if you don't like to go into a supermarket for your shopping



Another Café or pub, where in the evening you can try your talent as a singer with Karaoke



All very old houses dating from the Waterloo battle time, have been transformed to shops or offices. When I moved to Waterloo 33 years ago, there were still people living in them.



Should you get hungry during your little walk, there is a typical "Friterie" stand where you can buy a bag of belgian "french" fries. (French fries were invented in Belgium !)



The main street was very busy as usual


Another Pub/Brasserie in an old farmhouse, which is called "La Pomme" (the apple) They make very good Hamburgers.



Just in front is the very modern office parc



On my way back this restaurant "Moules à Gogo" (Mussels as you wish) is specialized in mussels as the name says, but they also have other things.





The residential area before I arrived home again

FUN MONDAY - Gardening

Faye asked us to tell our gardening stories. And share some photos of your garden, or one we admire.

I think I don't have any gardening stories because I never had a green thumb. I don't like to work in our garden, to plant and unplant flowers, to mow the grass or cut the hedge. What I love is sitting in a beautiful garden with flowers and blooming bushes around me and a freshly cut lawn because it smells so good. I try to understand people who love working in a garden, know all flowers by their names and at what season they bloom.

But as we have a garden and I don't want to sit in a jungle either I tried to make it nice and easy. Mr. Gattino is of no help he hates garden work even more than me and mowing the grass is already too much. At the very beginning a gardener was seeding grass in the middle and put all kind of bushes around. In front of the house we put gravel.

Since last year a miracle happened and I suddenly started to like to work a little bit in our garden. Not too much of course.


I bought tree bark and had put it on a plastic so there would be no weeds and no more mowing at the side of the house.


at the end of the lawn I planted a rhododendron a months ago which just started to bloom. It's also the little corner where our animals are burried.


The entrance too I made very easy. Same system, tree bark on plastic



and flower pots with petunias



and of course a little cat. In a month there will be blooming more and fill the whole pot.





For the moment a lot of bushes are blooming and it looks wonderful. These are two houses in my neighborhood.