Amazing trip to BASTOGNE, Belgium [HD]
Trip to Bastogne, Belgium.
Viagem à Bastogne, Bélgica.
9th 'Indian Festival', July 7th - 8th 2012, Recogne-Bastogne, Belgium
Intrigued as we were, my wife Rita and I went in Belgium to Recogne-Bastogne to its 9th 'Indian Festival', July 7th - 8th 2012. The festival takes each year place on the domain of the well known bison farm 'La ferme des bisons'. Some say its a circus of people who want to play 'cowboy and Indian', some say it's pure fun, others claim it's a gathering of people who share an authentic passion for both Native American and American Western culture, history and way of life. We wanted to see and experience it by ourselves. On the '9ème Indian Festival' flyer you could read there was a live camp of 300 people representing 'Indians', Northern and Southern American civil war soldiers, cavalry men, mountain Men, trappers, civilians ... from different time periods . Kids and adults could attend workshops to learn about Native American arts, drum, singing, dancing and 'country & line dancing' performances were given.
At the bison farm you can book a guided tour to watch the small local bison herd. A french speaking Belgian host translates into Dutch what two special guests, Kendall Old Elk and Kevin Dust, members of the Apsalooke Nation (Crow Tribe-Montana), explain about Native American culture and traditions in English. They are both living and working in Europe and come every year to Recogne-Bastogne to help and advize different festival participants from Belgium, Holland, Germany ...representing American Natives and their old ways of living and clothing.
Kendall Old Elk and Kevin Dust demonstrate dances, hand drum singing, but also invite the public to participate. They are full of humor and often pull someone's leg hilariously.
The most famous bison of the farm is one animal -- I don't recall its name - that at its birth saw a human as a first living creature. From that time on it considers humans as its fellow creatures and cannot adapt to living among the herd. This bison welcomes and attracts everyone during the festival.
We enjoyed this event very much and noticed that a lot of the participants make a great effort to respect in detail as authentically as possible the child, the man, the woman they want to represent from a specific period of time.
We enjoyed talking to participants, to visitors, to the special Native American guests and in particular we lived a spirit of peaceful and pleasant encounter among humans as we did at the Pow Wow's we visited in California and New Mexico.
Interesting to know is during the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne, World War II, lots of Navajos served in the US Army as 'Windtalkers' to prevent the German enemy from understanding and decoding the communication between the fighting US troops.
American Battle Monument Cemetery in Ardennes, Belgium
This video presents a brief narrated tour of Ardennes American Cemetery's landscaped grounds, architecture, and works of art.
The approach drive at Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium leads to the memorial, a stone structure bearing on its façade a massive American eagle and other sculptures. Within are the chapel, three large wall maps composed of inlaid marbles, marble panels depicting combat and supply activities and other ornamental features. Along the outside of the memorial, 462 names are inscribed on the granite Tablets of the Missing. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. The façade on the far (north) end that overlooks the burial area bears the insignia, in mosaic, of the major U.S. units that operated in northwest Europe in World War II.
The 90-acre cemetery contains the graves of 5,329 of our military dead, many of whom died in the 1944 Ardennes winter offensive (Battle of the Bulge). The headstones are aligned in straight rows that form a Greek cross on the lawns and are framed by tree masses. The cemetery served as the location of the Central Identification Point for the American Graves Registration Service of the War Department during much of the life of the Service.
The cemetery is open daily to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except December 25 and January 1. It is open on host country holidays. When the cemetery is open to the public, a staff member is on duty in the Visitor Building to answer questions and escort relatives to grave and memorial sites.
Bastogne 2013 bois du jacques
a nice group conmbined with friends from belgium ,holland ,england and germany
most members on the video or from the german us airborne reenactment club AIR GERMANY
special thanks to jan martin falk who made this video
CIDADE MEDIEVAL, Bruges (Bélgica) [HD]
Vídeo gravado em 2011, chegando de carro no Centro Medieval, em Bruges (Bélgica).
Video recorded in 2011 arriving by car at the Medieval Downtown in Bruges (Belgium).
Paris cementeries
Cemeteries are one of the most interesting places in Paris! Many famous people have found their final resting place here.
Europe in 2 minutes 2010 w no music.mov
Students from the Navajo reservation travel to Europe with Mr. Cambridge on an EF tour.
CCTV of Robbery at Belgian Cafe Ramsgate 14/10/2013 at 4.15am clip 6.
CCTV of Robbery at Belgian Cafe Ramsgate 14th October 4.15am staff leaving and after robbers coming Robbery at Belgian Cafe Ramsgate 14th October 4.15 am took place in the early hours between us closing at after 3.30am and cleaner coming at 4.30am, they took two safes from the wall with cash in each. safes were found over the cliff at Broadstairs where they were seen dumping them.
Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Motta St.Anastasia Sizilien Catania Kriegsgräber Cemetery Sicilia
Im Juli 1943 landeten die Alliierten auf bis dahin von der deutschen Wehrmacht besetzten Insel Sizlien. Die Kämpfe dauerten nur wenige Monate, aber bis zum Absetzen auf das Festland, über die Straße von Messina, haben etwa 5.400 deutsche Soldaten auf der Insel ihr Leben lassen müssen
Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Motta S. AnastasiaStrada Provinciale 13, No. 2595040 Motta S. Anastasia
ITALIEN37°31'30.37N; 14°59'23.14O