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I would like to receive Newsletter from MICHELIN Guide Save lists of your favorite restaurants & hotels the one-room Hotel Casanus is a giant intestinal model that allows guests to spend a cozy night inside a massive colon Resting in the Verbeke Foundation Art Park near Antwerp the cozy anatomical model was the work of Dutch designer Joep van Lieshout curved interior of the furnished anus features a double bed The exterior of the room is sculpted with bulging veins and a giant puckered sphincter (non-functional) on one end and painted the visceral red of exposed organs The colossal muscle tube almost seems out of place in the idyllic art park visitors still flock to the site to spend the night in the big colon which is also surrounded by such wondrous sites as black swans and an unobstructed view of the night sky Hotel Casanus is somewhere between theme bed and breakfast and gross-out stunt tourism Breakfast and access to the museum are included in the price Make your reservation at least a week in advance by email A beautiful art space and unusual mini-hotel hidden in the city center of Dnipro This tiny hotel perched atop a 50-foot tower really puts things into perspective A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement handpainted reproductions of iconic Francisco Goya paintings This bright and bubbly Palm Springs hotel was the brainchild of an iconic drag queen A Latvian collaborator kicks the bodies of Jewish women and children into a ditch after their execution Update (October 2022):  The Zedelgem monument was removed in June 2022. See coverage in Het Nieuwsblad (Google translation here) See report on the Zedelgem monument by an international panel of 15 historians and detailed collection of this ongoing controversy by The Belgians Remember Them group which played a seminal part in fighting the whitewashing Zedelgem — Update: This monument was removed in June 2022 A monument to the Waffen-SS in the middle of Western Europe The Legion was composed of the 15th Waffen Grenadier (1st Latvian) and the 19th Waffen Grenadier (2nd Latvian) divisions of the SS. The Anti-Defamation League shows the 15th Division’s insignia as an example of hate signs used by neo-Nazis Today, Latvia itself hosts annual marches celebrating Latvian Legionnaires where hundreds of SS veterans are cheered as heroes now has a monument celebrating the Waffen-SS a Latvian collaborator kicks the bodies of Jewish women and children into a ditch after their execution Latvian SS veterans and their relatives march in a parade celebrating the Latvian Legion For more glorification of Latvian Waffen-SS soldiers, see the Latvia section Note: the entries below were added during the January 2022 project update Verschaeve’s defenders often claim he’s being honored as a poet and author, not a Nazi collaborator. It’s a common tactic used to whitewash collaborators with literary backgrounds. A good response to this came from Herman van Goethem, historian and rector of the University of Antwerp. “Cyriel Verschaeve – writer. That is correct,” van Goethem quipped Thanks to the efforts of historians like van Goethem and Koen Aerts as well as activists, six Belgian towns have renamed their Verschaeve streets over the past five years. That’s a rare trend, considering nearly everywhere else, monuments to collaborators are on the rise. Verschaeve’s only other honor is a plaque on his birth house in Ardooie which says nothing about his Nazi past Flemish Waffen-SS volunteers holding a ceremony most likely before going to the Eastern Front Flemish SS recruitment poster; note the antisemitic caricature of the figure representing the U.K (Many thanks to Koen Aerts for his invaluable guidance on Belgian collaborators efforts to whitewash them and the far-right.) Lev Golinkin is a regular contributor to the Forward whose work has also appeared in The New York Times I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward American Jews need independent news they can trust At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S rising antisemitism and polarized discourse This is a great time to support independent Jewish journalism you rely on See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up Copyright © 2025 The Forward Association we have seen an alarming increase in invasive non-native crayfish in recent years including the infamous marble crayfish and the red American crayfish are a serious threat to our aquatic ecosystems Their behaviour leads directly and indirectly to loss of biodiversity degradation of water quality and damage to banks and dykes we need more information on the species present and their distribution which is why we need the help of citizen scientists Would you like to actively contribute to INBO research on invasive alien crayfish And do you have half an hour of your time for 5 consecutive days between 15 June and 15 October the citizen science project mapping the current distribution of these exotic crayfish in Flanders Want to take part? Sign up at craywatch@inbo.be Wietse Chanet Image above: marbled crayfish in the Normand Park in Middelkerke (INBO photo) Red American crayfish at Stekene Canal in Stekene (photo INBO) Herman TeirlinckgebouwHavenlaan 881000 BrusselPO Box:Koning Albert II-laan 15 bus 186B-1210 Brussel The Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) is the independent research institute of the Flemish government that underpins and evaluates biodiversity policy and management by means of applied scientific research Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker has launched its first Comenius project together with five other schools from Scotland The new project is entitled "Developing Health and Welfare Education in the European Primary School" The aim of this project is to instil awareness about the practical and different issues reflecting students' and teachers' everyday lives - health and welfare education in European countries Our first task was to prepare a presentation on the national and local structure of the educational system together with our school structure and main teaching methods All our schoolchildren are involved in this project A few students sent e-mails to their counterparts directly from their school e-mail accounts This was done from the school's computer laboratory Others sent various greeting cards and letters by post with the help of their class teacher The enthusiasm was great and the children's faces spoke for themselves A group of 14 - mostly head teachers and teachers from the six schools - met at Toermalyn Primary School in Stekene Most of us already knew each other from the preparatory visit which was held the year before a lot of work has been done by the partner schools gave us a warm welcome and introduced us to most of the school staff It was also a joy to see and hear the Belgian children happily singing and dancing to welcome us We were also welcomed by the nursery school-children second and third classes of the primary school Here we could observe and discuss with the teachers the various teaching methods used We also observed children in the playground entering their classroom and during their lunchtime break It was a great experience to see how other countries run their daily classroom lives without being stressful After the class visits we usually discussed the project Everyone had the chance to speak about their school methods and following a lengthy discussion each country representative delivered a presentation on the national and local structure of the educational system Present were members from the Belgian Education Department parents and teachers from Toermalyn School The children of the fourth classes welcomed us by singing It's a small world and by giving us some of their delicious Belgian chocolate we discussed how we were going to pass on information to each other about staff and the children's healthy diary We also decided to set up a school Website with links to each partner school to foster good communication Other activities were planned for the coming three years We were also invited by the mayor at Stekene City Hall After a warm welcome and a long chat about our countries we had a delicious Flemish dinner typically known as breughel-meal An excellent relationship developed between us and for some of us it was very hard to say goodbye We all look forward to another project meeting in May This was an excellent opportunity for our children to feel closer to and learn from other European children We thank the Socrates National Agency for its financial support Mr Ferket for his kind hospitality and support towards the delegation the teachers at our school who are actively involved in the project and also all the parents for their excellent work please register for free or log in to your account A school in Cospicua has joined forces with schools in five European countries in its first Comenius project The project - Developing Health And Welfare Education In The European Union Primary School - aims to instil awareness about the practical health and welfare education issues that make up the students' and teachers' day-to-day life in EU countries St Francis School in Cospicua is taking part together with schools from Scotland The first task was to prepare a presentation on the national and local structure of the education system together with the school structure and methods of teaching Children were involved in the project and some of them have sent e-mails to students in the other participating countries Others mailed greeting cards and letters with the help of the class teacher Last month head teachers and teachers from the six participating schools met at the Toermalyn Primary School in Stekene Belgium please register for free or log in to your account.