Sunday, September 8th, 2019 The New St. BAVO CHURCH

We all slept in a little this morning. Then we had breakfast together. Dick suggested an afternoon outing to see the New St. BAVO church and climb to the top. It is special because they have been renovating and the climbing scaffolds will come down in the fall.

Climb to the light

Dick explained that the church has a combination of different styles of architecture from fancy Romanesque look to Byzantine architecture and Gothic because it took so long to build and they ran out of money at times. We were going to go in, tour the inside and then work our way up the tower to the top.

Massive high ceiling

Small organ in side chapel

Stained glass windows

Fancy side chapel

The difference renovating makes

Picture of St. Bavo

Crucifixion painting

Preaching platform

Statue of St. Bavo

Confessional

Climbing the circular stairs

Round and round

Three of us in the rafters

Looking down below from first outlook

Dick in the balcony

Carla and I looking at Dick

Ringing the bell

One of the 4 clocks

The clock mechanism

Photo from the top platform

Haarlem

The chart from this angle

The photo from the same angle

 

After the long spiral walk down where I used the flashlight on my phone to see better, we had a drink and sandwich at the church café.

Then , since Carla had seen the area where she grew up, from the top of the church, Dick decided to drive to that area and have a cold drink. We went past the house where Carla was born and lived with her grandparents and parents. Dick and Carla also lived in the house for 4 years and it is where Marnix was born.

Then we had a cold drink at a café Volgholsang

On the way home we would be passing by Marnix's house and Carla called to see if we could come by to see it. Only Rineke was home and she gave us a nice tour. They are still unpacking and putting up lamps and so on but it is beautiful with a big living room, modern kitchen, and computer room on the main floor, white stairs and a store room , cat bedroom and master bedroom and bathroom on the 2nd floor and laundry room and spare room on the 3rd floor. The backyard is being filled with big concrete blocks at 2 levels and later plants will be added. They also have finished their awning in the backyard.

Living room

Rineke in her kitchen

The cat

Front of their house

A stop across the street at Barry's smaller new house.

Then we went home and Dick used his Actifry for the second time and made french fries and cheese croquettes and we watched a serial on TV called Peaky Blinders. Then I went to bed as it was after 12.