Yesterday being a public holiday (and I’m doing the pont today) we did the trip I have long been wanting to do, to Wéris in the Ardennes, fêted among enthusiasts as Belgium’s answer to Stonehenge. Now that I’ve been and come back I find this guide to the site; on this trip we located only the Wéris I dolmen and the nearby menhir, but it was well worth the visit anyway.
This picture is looking back into the "front garden" from beside the main dolmen.
The main dolmen is too small for adults to explore properly, though better-suited for nine-year-olds:
U is sometimes shy in front of the camera:
But we got her on form a couple of times yesterday:
Finally, a rare portrait of myself, by the fine upstanding menhir about a km away from the first complex:
Now that I have a better idea of where to look, I’ll certainly go back.
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Latest comment on the review: “Maybe he’s an old wizard who has been locked in a dungeon for a thousand years and his grasp on language has decayed.” Amazing.