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Updates from Leuven where the police are not trying to aid in a burgeoning dictatorship

“The Police have been mobilized in the neighborhood. They're catching a stray rooster. There are three officers cornering it with a doggy carrier in the alley.”

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 1d

Ran into @stanhieronymus.bsky.social in Ghent this afternoon

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 2d

Sad to see them more and more scribbled off

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 2d

Chatting with the bartender

“We make only special beers here. Like brown sugar brown beer for Christmas. But not much. Last year we only made 4000L of it”

“4000L? On this brewhouse? Thats…a lot”

“Maybe if you’re a homebrewer”

😢

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 2d

ThankYouMayWeHaveAnother!

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 2d

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...

Walls Made of Ancient Human Leg Bones Found Beneath Belgian Church

The macabre creations are likely the product of an overcrowded cemetery cleared out hundreds of years ago

www.smithsonianmag.com

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 2d

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 2d

Gentse Stadsbrouwereij Gruut Blond

Finally a brewery that uses less hops than me! Most have none - all bittering herbs and whatnot though they have added Inferno which does use hops

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 2d

Took less than an hour in Ghent to find the Succulentensarre and a bunch of cacti

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 2d

lol. We were at the table to their right

daveratkins.bsky.social @daveratkins.bsky.social · 2d

What happens when you meet friends in Cantillon. Yes we did sample every bottle

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 2d

Belgium, Belgium > Belgium, Wisconsin

Wish it wasn’t true because the second is much closer. Both have John Deere factories

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry. No. Or yes. They all have the same seven prayer services at the same time throughout the day. Because they are all in the same time zone it must be a pretty busy time for someone to hear all the prayers

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 4d

Oh. I looked up what that means. I loved not having to make idle conversation

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know Compline but all the brewing Trappist monasteries are in the same time zone so they all do the liturgies of the day at the same time of the day. Was softly chastised by a monk for not doing the 4:30a one

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 4d

They have French speaking ones too!

It’s a mess

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John Laffler @jalaffler.bsky.social · 4d

Coo. I’ll bring you one

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