CARNIVAL IN VILLERS LA VILLE

Villers-la-Ville is a small little town with a total population of 9,572. It is not very far from Brussels and a well liked place to live.

In the north of the village, lie the ruins of the Villers Abbey, which was one of the most important Cistercian abbeys of Europe founded in the 12th Century.

This time I didn't go there to walk amongst the ruins but outside to see the carnival procession, which takes place each year.



Unfortunately the weather was cold and grey and the poor people in their costumes were freezing. But that didn't matter at all, they all had a lot of fun and beer was warming up anyway !



The procession



Monks and a canon to shoot confetti on the public !



The band in the procession



All kind of costumes



The tractor had to pull the carnival wagons



Need a surgery ? here there are surgeons !



The giants of Villers



Beautiful dresses



Clowns and dancers



Doctors, nurses and an "ambulance"



Of course pirates could not be missed



Pigs and cows have fun together



Stewards and pilots in front of an airplane




and the others with fancy costume or masks.

There also was a huge tent with a lot of different food and drinks, and a fancy fair for the kids.

more participants here

WEEKEND REVIEW FEB 25

We had the visit of our young friend, and he told us that he is still looking for work ! I think he asks too much, he had a very nice job, very well paid, but he was always on the road so that his marriage broke. But he doesn't give up hope.

I tried out my new GPS and am very happy with it. First I was a little hesitating, I thought it would be difficult, but it is so easy and so clear, I had no problems. So I drove around and put new addresses in, just to get used. It's much better than the Garmin I had before. Now I am ready for my trip to Germany, because without it I couldn't drive !

In the evening we had our Facebook party, from the members of the page "Vivre à Waterloo" (living in Waterloo) It was so nice to meet life again, we had done this before. We were about 50 people from the group and our administrator had booked a Greek Restaurant. We had a group of 3 singers, who performed real good. 



I was with my "teacher" from the painting group (below right) she had such a lot of fun and we danced ! The lady in pink is 85 years old, you should have seen her dancing ! More then Mirella and me !



The food too was excellent, after the third round of tapas I forgot to take pictures.  The rolls were with "foie gras", then salmon, and the fancy looking thing was goat cheese in a kind of chips, but of course it werent't chips ! There were also two main courses, but we didn't eat very much we were so full from all these Greek specialities. Everybody enjoyed the evening very much and we finally went home at 11.30 pm.

Sunday afternoon, I went to  to Villers la Ville



In front of the ruins of the famous Abbey the yearly Carnival procession took place. Unfortunately it was so cold and windy that I just had a look on the costumes but didn't wait for the procession. I took some pictures and  on my returned stopped at Nicole's for a coffee.