// Between the lines //: Bachten de Kupe

glasses, glasses, glasses...

"Bachten de Kupe" is a small area in West-Flanders, Belgium, pinched between the river the "Yser", the Northsea and the French border - literally it means outside the river bed. We spent most of our Sunday afternoon driving through rain and wind, exploring that specific area and that's how we ended up at the "Bachten de Kupe Openluchtmuseum", an open air museum I never heard of before, but which we'll visit again I'm sure.

The museum consists of small houses that once stood in the area, and which have been reconstructed at the museum's site. Every house is dedicated to a particular theme (a shoe repair store, a doctor's office, a school, a presbytery, a hair salon, a grocery store, a post office...) and harbors a great collection of items from the old days. This place is a little gem, really!

My girls just loved it and not just because of the Halloween-themed search game.
M. fell in love with the school building and back in the car she kept on repeating she would like to go back into time, just to be able to go to a school like that and to be able to play in the fields in summer with the other kids of town...
She has some very romantic ideas of what life must have been like back then!

Of course I took a million of pictures - and not using a flash gave the pictures that little bit of grain, which kind of suits the subject ... Well, that's what I keep telling my self when looking a the blurry ones...
For more pictures, feel free to visit my Flickr photostream.

medicines in the typical brown bottles which I even remember from when I was a kid. I just love those labels where the pharmacist would write the dosage on...