Tinker's photos

La Maison du Peket - one of the two bar areas

La Maison du Peket in Liège. They serve the local speciality, peket, which is an eau de vie. You can get the straight stuff (40%) or in a wide variety of flavours, or added to beer

Liège's beautiful Town Hall from the back

escargot (snails) for lunch, along with a spread of middle eastern tasties, with Eugénie and François, who came home for lunch

François and I went to a Provencal market on Place Saint Lambert and bought some dried sausages. The one on the left is wid boar sausage, the middle one donkey and pork, and the dark one on the right is a Corsican sausage of some sort.

Lindemans Kriek (cherry) - very nice, but Lindemans Framboise is still my favourite fruit lambic beer

These pigeons were just standing in the cascading water on the fountain. Place Saint Lambert

Palais des Princes-Evêques (Palace of the Prince-Bishops) on Place Saint Lambert, with a big chunk of stone functioning as a fountain. From what I can gather, this stone is a remnant of the former Cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Lambert (Cathedral of Saint Lambert) which was destroyed in 1794 under the French regime as a political act.

This was on sale amongst the fresh fish at the supermarket. I have never seen it before. It is called Passe-Pierre (French) or Zeekraal (Dutch) and in English it turns out to be called samphire, or sea beans, or sea asparagus. It is a type of Salicornia, "a genus of succulent, halophyte (salt tolerant) flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae that grow in salt marshes, on beaches, and among mangroves... native to North America, Europe, South Africa, and South Asia."

horse made from old pallets, beside the Delhaize supermarket at Place Saint Lambert

view of Liège from Liège-Guillemins railway station

The little helicopter looks like it has an anus

Liège-Guillemins railway station has this little helicopter on display. François is a helicopter technician, and said this was a recent invention and is special as it does not have a tail rotor. It is so small it looks like a toy helo but it carries two people. Have not been able to identify the name of the helicopter or the inventor, but apparently these are called NOTAR

Lupulus Organicus, "Belgian organic triple, blond beer (7 EBC) of high fermentation, with secondary fermentation in the bottle, unfiltered"

Corsendonk Pater, a "strong, Burgundy-colored ale" from Brasserie Du Bocq

me and François being vikings with beer mugs

me and François being vikings with beer mugs

Leffe Royale Mapuche, one of François' favourites.