Belgium Trip Day # Liege, Deigne

We arrive in Deigne very late. This is a small village with narrow streets, there is a large block party going on when we arrive that lasts until early morning. The weekend we are staying here, the town is closed of and there is a large festival, craft booths and garage style setups along every road. All through the day ceremonies are taking place with announcements, people in costumes, all designed for fun. Chantal and her mother cruise the jewelry stalls and a few of the local cheese and specialty food vendors. I venture out looking for the booths that looks like they pulled it out of the garage or junk pile. Lots of bier glasses for various styles of beers, most are not in photographic condition but I pick up a small Trappist glass for tastings. I found a really cool chocolate mold that makes a full size pig that is about 6 inches long, I thought about coming back later for it, when I did it was gone. My mother always says when shopping in a foreign country"You see it, you want it, you buy it", because it will not be there later.

For lunch we sent our own dishes to a food vendor and he filled them up for us to take back to the cottage. We enjoyed a paella, some local bread and cheeses, the local water is supplied from a spring in the center of town. George would take two large bottles every morning and fill them from the spring for our drinking water.