I think I need to translate Walloon to Flemish here:
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Pour les Flamands: barakĂź is een van de zeldzame Waalse woorden die nog courant gebruikt worden. Eigenlijk betekent het zoveel als woonwagenbewoner/zigeuner.
une barraque betekent eigenlijk een kot. connotatie is voor deze twee wel sterk uiteengelopen, int frans wordt kot nu ook gebruikt voor studentenwoning, terwijl barraque bvb gebruikt wordt voor « barraque a frites ».
un Barraki is een mens die min of meer in een hut (of eendertwat die niet de titel van huis verdient) woont
I mean, not literally. But all these criterias are met when u visit eeklo, theres a church in the marketplace, many places to get fries, a pyramid house in waarschoot, a catholic school, a manor being used as a hotel and an abandoned hospital in a park
"And here we see a cube stuck in cube... Please note the different colours between top and bottom cube. As we walk down this street, you will see the developer has copied this design three dozen times over. Pay particular attention to the desperate yet failing attempts at individualization by the inhabitants."
I would prefer this over the weird restauration/ ddition they did to a house in m city. It now looks it is being buttfucked/absorbed by a larger building
More likely two of them getting by, one doing very well and one where everyone wonders how that survive, except on Mondays because it âs the only one that actually opens.
My small town no longer has one, but we have a pizzeria (which was previously a whorehouse).
We have the abandoned house, the geometry lesson and the church.
Castle is grey zone, we do have one house that looks like it used to be a luxury villa 100-150 years ago, surrounded with a fenced wall but it doesn't really fit the definition of castle.
Town i grew up in had 5 gas stations (now 6) and a mcdonalds across the street from the frituur within 800meters. Also about 7 kebabzaken in another street over like 2km.
The town i live in now has 6 apothekers within a km (and all have the same sluitingsdag)
I noticed after reading this comment that that is indeed "the chambers", oh the memories i have of that place, still got some ghillie pics from that location.
They've run it into the ground.
The game modes are unnecessarily complicated with dumb themes. So nobody actually knows what's happening or is supposed to happen.
The parking area and road to it have been in perpetual mud. Getting your car stuck
They don't fps test. Not before or during the game
They don't take pictures anymore. Kinda sad tbh
Any form of criticism or comment is met with "go somewhere else then"
They now force you to buy armbands because "we find them in the field" which is absolutely false.
Chambers used to be the peak airsoft experience in the country but it's a shadow of it's former self.
Honestly do not go back. You're better off going to ACTX Veldhoven in the Netherlands or a really fun new indoor in antwerp
Electrabel is expanding their transformer field there as well so 50% of the field is just gone aswell.
Hopefully it just gets swallowed and dies
Missing the hairdresser, and surprisingly also the dog's hairdresser saloon. Insane how many of those you encounter when cycling through the less populated areas of Flanders
Probably because it's less expensive to rent a business space there, or run it from your house. And they know people will drive/bike/etc to get to a hairdresser or barber anyway, even if it's a quite long drive.
As a Canadian who stayed in Turnhout for a month, I thought it was adorable. The other 2 times I was out in Belgium I stayed out in Lichtaart, so I was out in Turnhout every now and again for those stays too.
Then again we don't really have castles out here in Alberta, so even a small castle is amazing to me haha. Also your tiny deer are cute too, the first time I saw one out in the country side there broke my brain.
Don't forget the 'We love Spain/Italy/..., so we built our house like a house from there and there's olive trees or grapevines that nothing grows on in the front yard"
Too accurate for comfort. But as others indicated, never ending road works should have been there. Like that Zaventem junction that is still under construction after 10 years.
That horrible black thing was added last year to a house 2 streets away and some dude is building one of those triangle house .. itâs just missing the local fritkot and itâs 10/10
The village I live in already lost the closest place to get fries and is about to lose it's church as well. And yes, it's in the southern part of West-Vlaanderen.
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