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I know what you really want to know is What’s Going On In The Phantom (Weekdays)? What’s coming for The Phantom? October 2025 – January 2026 so after reading that, please enjoy a double dose of pictures from our ride on De Lijn:
We've reached the portion of the shore where there's parasailing, that's nice to see.
Quick stop to have detraining passengers get eaten by a crocodile.
Here's a hotel, I believe, that has this mesh wrapping that caught my fancy, I think because it looks like those mesh bags they'll put an orange in to carry.
And the Atlantic Ocean, seen from the other side from what we were used to back in New Jersey.
Nice and tolerably centered view of the shoreline and I'm guessing a parking payment station.
There's those parasailers again.
Is it really the Spilliaert House? Sign says so. I can't tell you anything more than that.
And here's the station at Oostende, roughly the halfway point and where we had to stop to turn around.
It was a multimodal station, buses, interurban, trains, probably boats, and as you can see, portable holes.
The portable hole, you can see, leads to a dimension of bicycle parking.
Also a drawbridge, raised and lowered as boats moved along the channel.
Here at the fabulous Belgian Hall of Justice ...
Trivia: New Jersey's constitution of 1844 expanded male suffrage to all adult white male citizens who had lived one year in the state and five months in a particular county. There was no move made to restore the voting rights of Black people or women, which they had enjoyed from 1776 through 1807. Source: New Jersey: A History of the Garden State, Maxine N Lurie, Richard Veit.
Currently Reading: A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II, Maury Klein.
