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Event - Dinos in the sand ( Zandsculpturenfestival Middelkerke)

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How to make adult get in back in touch with their inner 5 year old? Easy: you show them dinosaurs! Before leaving for France we made a stop in Middelkerke (Belgian coast) to visit the annual festival for sand sculptures. This edition is inspired by the last Jurassic World-movie and really unleashes the kid inside every dino-loving adult. First of all: it isn't the biggest edition ever, however it's worth every penny of the entrance fee. Artistry & emotion are in every detail of the lifelike and often pretty big dioramas. It's not just impressive fights, but also cute prehistoric family scenes cut out of mountains of sand.. because often we would simply forget that everything is made out of nothing else but sand. Just check out all those details. Impressive!   All the pictures are on Flickr . A video is on Clapper ( the complete video ) & on Instagram ( however: cut short by IG ) You've got till September 11th to visit it yourself. Because: how often can you e

Event - El Mundo Fantasia

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Let's start with a picture: . At first I simply wanted to create a placeholder for this fantasy fair in the Mondo Verde amusement park.. but I fear I might forget some things I wanted to say if I wait till all pictures have been processed. Follow the progress on Instagram , Facebook , or directely at the source on Flickr   And for a short video it is HERE on Clapper with the other fair videos ( Elfia, Trolls-et-Légendes, MOD, cosplay shoots, parades,.. ). Maybe I should put those on Tiktok too? First of all a mental note about the location of Mondo Verde in Landgraaf ( Dutch Limburg ). You should see this place as 3 amusement parks combined into 1. * There's a waterpark filled with water rides & splash slides for the kids. Fun-fun-fun on a hot Summer day. ( and a good spot for a quick shot of the Atlantian Mera ) This was opened during the fair. So at first I thought that +50% of the visitors only came to swim. But that was our mistake because we visited this part to