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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Vamos, España! We are with you! 🇪🇸

Map of the dominions of the House of Habsburg in Europe at the abdication of Charles V

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Obligatory Colosseum pictures

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy Labour Day, everyone! 🌹

Labour Day poster by the Belgian Socialist Common Action

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter everyone! 🥰

Greeting card depicting church bells dropping eggs, chicks, and the message "Joyeuses Pâques" ("Happy Easter")

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I have been to train geek paradise

Several steam locomotives at Train World, Schaarbeek

NMBS/SNCB Type 12 steam locomotive at Train World, Schaarbeek

Several locomotives at Train World, Schaarbeek

The nose of a Eurostar train at Train World, Schaarbeek

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Christmas market time 🎄🎅

Christmas tower at Leuven Christmas Market, in front of the Leuven University Library

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Theatre night! I'm seeing Mother Courage tonight 😊

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Book haul from my trip to England 📚

Clockwise from top left: 1) Bolivar, by Marie Arana; 2) The Medieval Scriptorium, by Sara J. Charles; 3) Great Britain?, by Torsten Bell; 4) Empress Dowager Cixi, by Jung Chang; 5) John Henry Newman, by Ian Ker.

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

We're knights of the round table, we dance whenever we're able

The Winchester Round Table in the Great Hall at Winchester

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I thought I had died and gone to heaven

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Been out church-seeing again, Winchester Cathedral is beautiful 🥰

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

This is the papal bull issued by pope Eugene IV in 1432 authorising the creation of a faculty of theology at the medieval University of Leuven (sorry for the lighting 😅)

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Some more highlights from the Groeningemuseum

The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele, by Jan van Eyck

Coronation of Mary, by the Master of the Embroidered Foliage

The Judgement of Cambyses, by Gerard David

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Went to Bruges for the Pride and Solace exhibition about medieval books of hours at the Groeningemuseum Aren't they beautiful? 🥰

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

You'll never guess which seat is still available

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

At Chocolate Nation in Antwerp 😍🍫

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I like these folkloric processions

A trio of processional giants, two from the Bruegel and Marolles quarter in Brussels depicting girls with flowers in their hair, and the third giant is from France and depicts a female musician

Processional giant depicting Belgian Air Force officer Robert Corbeel holding a fighter plane

A processional giant from France called Sigridur depicting a woman in traditional Icelandic costume

Processional giant depicting Belgian jazz musician Toots Thielemans greeting a family

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Giants on parade in Leuven today

Processional giant depicting Queen and Saint Jadwiga of Poland

Processional giant with the name of Da Tong, depicting a Chinese warrior, preceded by a Chinese giant dragon puppet

Processional giant depicing Kobe Koeienschieter, a figure from Leuven's folklore

Processional giant depicting a fox in a folkloristic costume, preceded by a person in a bunny suit on a unicycle

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

There's a temporary exhibition at Parcum Museum on ecstasy, juxtaposing the religious ecstasy of medieval mystics with the contemporary search for ecstasy

Painting depicting the search of three beguines for union with God

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Look at the detail on that stucco ceiling, this is the Last Supper

The Last Supper, in stucco on ceiling, by Jan-Christian Hansche (17th century)

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

And some from inside Park Abbey

Cloister aisle with some of the returned 17th century stained-glass windows by Jean de Caumont

One of the restored interiors in Park Abbey

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

A few pictures I took during a visit to Park Abbey in Leuven earlier today

A view of Park Abbey from across its ponds

A view of Park Abbey's watermill and ponds

An art installation called "Aedicula", about the strenght of silence, in the domain of Park Abbey

Church of Saint John the Evangelist and the Parcum Museum in Park Abbey

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Here's who I hope will qualify from semi-final 2 tonight

1. Montenegro
2. Austria
3. Greece
4. Lithuania
5. Latvia
6. Czechia
7. Finland
8. Luxembourg
9. Armenia
10. Denmark

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Here's who I want to qualify tonight

1. Albania
2. Ukraine
3. Portugal
4. Poland
5. Netherlands
6. Belgium
7. Sweden
8. Norway
9. Iceland
10. San Marino

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Wishing everyone a great Europe Day ☺️ 🇪🇺

A poster depicting Europe as a ship with the national flags of European countries as sails, and the caption "All our colours to the mast"

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Happy Victory in Europe Day, everyone!

Picture of the celebrations at the liberation of Brussels

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

In August 1914, the German army deliberately burned the University Hall, which then housed the university library, destroying over 230,000 books and manuscripts. Rebuilt after WWI, it now houses the Rector's office, hosts PhD defences, and is where new students enroll.

The ruins of Leuven University Hall after the Sack of Leuven by the German army in August 1914

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Today, the City of Leuven ceremonially transferred Leuven's University Hall to KU Leuven to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the founding of the old University of Leuven in 1425. The oldest part of the building was originally constructed as the city’s cloth hall in 1317.

Leuven University Hall, as seen from the Naamsestraat.

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Zuck: The average American has three friends.

Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux, Betty White as Rose Nylund, and Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak, in The Golden Girls

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Happy Labour Day to you all, and solidarity forever! ✊🌹

1 May poster by Hugo Ké (Hugo de Kempeneer)

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

'll also remember Pope Francis for his unending commitment to protecting migrants and refugees in a world increasingly hostile to them, and his support for victims of war and oppression as shown by his daily calls with the Christians of Gaza. May you rest in peace and love

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

In France and Belgium, Easter eggs are traditionally delivered by Easter Bells, not the Easter Bunny. After falling silent on Maundy Thursday, church bells fly to Rome for the Pope's blessing and return with chocolate eggs, dropping them in gardens and on balconies along the way

Postcard depicting a flying church bell dropping off Easter eggs

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It sadly didn't make it out of the NF 😔

Lusterka (Eurovision Version) - Sw@da, Niczos

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

King Silvester! 👑 Hasn't been out of my on repeat all year

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Type a number from 1 to 30 for a song from my on repeat 😎

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

My brain, every waking moment:

The message "you have no real friends and will die alone" being spammed repeatedly during Elon Musk's live stream on the 5th of April 2025

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Happy International Asexuality Day to all my ace oomfies! ☺️

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

140 years ago, the Belgian Labour Party – the precursor to today’s PS and Vooruit – was founded at Café De Zwaan on Brussels’ Grand Place, uniting various smaller political groups, unions, cooperatives and workers’ associations into a single, broad socialist party

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Leuven City Hall tonight, illuminated in the colours of the Palestinian flag. 'Stop de gruwel' means 'stop the horror'.

Leuven City Hall illuminated in the colours of the Palestinian flag, the word 'stop de gruwel', which is Dutch for 'stop the horror' are legible in the centre.

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Went for a nighttime stroll past the Handbooghof, a restored part of Leuven's first city wall

A tower of the Handbooghof, a restored section of Leuven's first city wall

Part of the Handbooghof, a restored section of Leuven's first city wall

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Geert @geertiolanda.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Any European company that doesn't tell them to fuck off deserves to be publicly shamed and boycotted The US does not lay down the law here

Financial Times headline: US tells European companies to comply with Donald Trump's anti-diversity order

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