I'm at home, and shortly to be in my own bed again, after a weekend of (not) sleeping in the banana postion..... and it was sunny.

And I'm still smiley after a wonderful Easter Sunday service in Flemish, of which the only words I really understood were 'Christus is verrezen!'....

The whole town (Tongeren) was decorated for Easter, with the street and almost every shop decked out with garlands, wreaths, Easter trees (branches hung with decorated eggs), green and yellow ribbons, spring flowers, rabbits, chicks, feathers and eggs in every size and colour imaginable. Whenever we had coffee or a meal in a bar, it came with a small chocolate egg; our breakfast yesterday and today, in the hotel, included little chocolate and fondant eggs; on Saturday, there were two 'Easter Bunnies' giving out decorated hard boiled eggs to every child they met in the town.... a whole town celebrating a festival, rather than an excuse to eat too much, drink too much and fester in front of the TV.

LTS