central station Antwerp

This really puts a smile on my face every time i see it (and believe me it was sent to me many, many times)!!!!!
Central Station in Antwerp is a really beautiful building,a pearl in architecture.
But to me it is the place where they stole my bag in clear day light. Thank God i got it back...only without my money, my camera or my cell phone. But yes, the building is beautiful (did i mention this already?)and i think the dancing was just great!

i want sunlight!!!!

no color...but cosy

team- building

L'union fait la force. (United we are strong)

first time

We spent some time at the seaside with our granddaughter. She saw the sea for the very first time and could not understand there was land at the other side of all that water.

I explained to her that Harjinder Singh and Satnam Kaur and Surinder Singh were living in that country at the other side of the water.

So she went to her grandfather and told him: " And at the other side of this sea is the land of the sikhs, opa"

Maybe good idea for Khalistan?

Oostende

Dehra maseet soi puja au namaaz oi

He is in the temple as He is in the mosque,

He is in the Hindu worship as He is in the Muslim prayer.

Gods and demons who guard the treasures

Of the God of the riches, the musicians celestial,

The Hindus and the Muslims- they are all one,

They have each the habits of different homes,

But all men have the same eyes, the same body,

The same form compounded of the same four elements-

Earth, air, fire and water.

Thus the Abhekh of the Hindu and the Allah of Muslims are one,

The Quaran and the Puran praise the same Lord,

They are all of one Form,

The one Lord made them all.

written by Guru Gobind Singh Ji

(picture taken in the Great Mosque at Sousse, Tunesia.

people

unless

you take a knife tip of harissa...

i said a knife tip, because if you use more, believe me, you are on fire!!!!!

i know, because on one greedy lunch i take more to flavour up my couscous and ...yes fire!

spices

When travelling i always wonder where the spices are coming from. There were so many traders and invaderes in all directions of the world, that i lost track where they originally came from.

Did they bring them from the Middle East to India?

Or did they brought the spices back to their home countries from India?

Anyhow the soukhs look very much like the indian bazaar, having almost the same kind of spices. But i must admit that i was a bit disappointed that the Tunesian cuisine was very mild flavoured....unless

visiting the arab world

Sorry, i have not updated for a while. So i try to catch up.
We have been visiting Tunesia, watching the Arab world a bit. I enjoy being in different parts of the world, seeing how equal we are.
Going to a moslim country gives very odd reactions, like every person is about to blow himself up over there. People have such strange ideas about islam, which are mostly basesd on prejudices. So there is still a lot of work to be done in interfaith forums and meetings. It is important that we start to know each other; to know each other is the beginning of peace.
Because we are all brothers and sisters!

(On the picture the great mosque of Monastir)