Belgium [Get Pushed - Round 39]

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Belgium [Get Pushed - Round 39]
Belgium [Get Pushed - Round 39]

For Round 39 of Get Pushed, I was paired with the wonderful rafartreides2009. Raf and I have been Flickr friends for quite some time, so it was fun to be paired with someone I actually kind of know.

As Raf is in Belgium and I’m in Canada, I suggested that he could do an image that’s very Canadian, and I would do one that’s very Belgian – however we might interpret that. He accepted, and we were on!

But what the heck! Even though I used to date a Belgian a very long time ago, I found myself at a loss for what to do. I found a website with 25 little known facts about Belgium, but still couldn’t figure out a direction. Then, already terribly late, I decided yesterday to create an image that included a handful of those facts. I started with an old tulip shot of mine, and after I was done combining all the layers (14 or so, I think), I applied one final one over top – the Belgian flag with its black, yellow and red vertical bars. So this is it!

I’ve listed a dozen facts below. See how many you can find in the image!
1.Brussels sprouts really do come from Belgium, and have grown in the Brussels area for over 400 years.
2.Belgium makes over 800 different beers. Belgians drink an average of 150 litres of beer per year per person.
3.Belgium produces 220,000 tons of chocolate per year. That’s about 22 kg of chocolate per person in Belgium.
4.Belgian waffles were showcased in 1958 at Expo 58 in Brussels.
5.Belgium’s spring tulip garden at Groot-Bijgaarden Castle is home to 1.5 million spring bulbs.
6.Belgium’s other famous tulip is the tulip glass, for beer.
7.Belgium legalized gay marriage in 2003.
8.About 80 per cent of billiard players use Belgian-made balls.
9.Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in Brussels.
10.Victor Hugo was exiled there, and completed Les Misérables while visiting Waterloo, south of Brussels, in 1861.
11.And speaking of Waterloo, we all know it was the site of Napoleon’s defeat.
12.The saxophone was invented in Belgium, in the early 1840s by Adolphe Sax (1814-1894). Can’t find the sax in this image? That’s because I totally forgot to put it in. ;)

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