more on Ypres :
every 3 years there is the Cat's parade
i've forgotten why , but Ypres is also known as the Cat's town
(for 20 years we had a snackbar on the marketplace called "'t Kattewaad", direct translation , cat's evil, but it's really a name for kids doing cheeky things, sort of like a cat playing around, just doesn't translate that well literally)
used to be every year, but costs forced it to become every 3 years
this thing is known well in Japan , don't ask me how it became so famous there, but they come from Japan , just to see this...
it depicts the history of our town, but also the roll of cats throughout history, from beeing worshipped by the Egyptians, to beeing despised as the companions of witches in the middle ages..
