From 1999 (new post): Our group tour descends on Poperinge for the hop parade.
Editor's note: This weekend would have been the latest installment of the triennial Poperinge (Belgium) Beer and Hop Festival, but the pandemic postponed it,...
From 1998 (new post): The first time I visited Poperinge, with previously unpublished photographs.
Editor's note: This weekend would have been the latest installment of the triennial Poperinge (Belgium) Beer and Hop Festival, but the pandemic postponed it,...
From 2017: “Time for remembrance at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery outside Poperinge.”
I'm moody this week because the pandemic postponed Poperinge's Beer and Hop Festival, and so this week I'll be flooding the blog pages with...
A view of the river; at the The Aggregate, investigative journalism has not died.
The Aggregate is going where local mainstream media evidently fears to tread, and good on them for taking journalism seriously. But first, a number.
It's...
From 2005: “TRAVEL PRELUDES: Poperinge and a date with Westvleteren.”
I'm sore because the pandemic postponed Poperinge's Beer and Hop Festival, and so this week I'll be flooding the blog pages with reruns of...
From 2014: Poperinge pairings, tattoos and a meal to remember.”
I'm being petulant because the pandemic postponed Poperinge's triennial Beer and Hop Festival, and so this week I'll be flooding the blog pages with...
From 2017: “TRAVEL PRELUDES: Ieper … Ypres … Wipers; the Great War and a...
The Cloth Hall in Ieper (Ypres), with St. Martin's Cathedral behind it. Everything you see here was a hole in the ground in 1918.
I'm...
Doesn’t It Make You Feel Small?
I'm taking it very slowly, this getting back into the saddle after seven-odd years. We've taken two rides on the Greenway, and I've been...
Mother Nature’s Son.
When I was a kid, my family started taking annual vacations Out West, this being my father's preferred part of the planet in exactly...
Respect Yourself.
I'm just the beer guy, and so I can't speak for everyone at Pints&union, but it's a great feeling to know you're working for/with...
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2006: The NA Confidential – Volunteer Hoosier merger.
Diana and I first met Randy Smith on the grounds of the Moser Tannery in 2004 (wife Ann was with him; I knew her...
The Highwayman at city council, 2009: “Romeo, Romeo,——-?”
Lloyd "The Highwayman" Wimp, who sadly left us on November 12, 2010, was an old acquaintance of my 1990s-era pub madness who became a...
Prague’s concrete paneláks aren’t finished yet.
Having grown up under the tutelage of a father who went out of his way to avoid urban areas, and this being America, my...
