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I just came across this documentation from 1967/8 and thought it worth including in my reflections on my year in the College.
SECTIONED & CERTIFIED
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I just came across this documentation from 1967/8 and thought it worth including in my reflections on my year in the College.
WHEN 14% = 17%
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On Saturday, 18 November 1967, sterling was devalued by 14% from $2.80 to $2.40. Although rumours of impending devaluation had been widespread in the press, including in Europe and the United States, the announcement by the Labour government headed by Harold Wilson administered a severe shock to international confidence and to domestic opinion in the UK.
ASSISES NATIONALES
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We weren't long arrived in Brugge when a trip was organised to the Assises Nationales (Ard-Fheis) of the Gaullist party in Lille. This was the French town in which de Gaulle had been born and it was only an hour's drive from Brugge.
LET'S PARTY
Photo: André Meulemans
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This was an era when you brought your harp (guitar) to the party.
WINDMILLS
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This post is just a short atmosphere piece. The photos are from my year at the College in 1967/8 and are from the Brugge/Damme area.
HELLEVOETSLUIS
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Professor Istvan B F Kormoss, was a Hungarian who came to the College of Europe as a student after WWII.
ON TOUR
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In early 1968 we set off, from the College of Europe in Brugge, on a study trip which took in Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Bonn and Köln.
BRITISH WEEK
The Whitbread Inn in Brugge's Markt, April 1968
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I really don't know where to start with this post.
GEEN VLAAMS
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That's Peter, my German teacher. That football accident put paid to my aspirations to rival Goethe in my own lifetime.
LA FRANCOPHONIE
Guy Spitaels
Promotion: Henry the Navigator
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The linguistic requirement for studying in the College of Europe, which operated in two languages - English and French, was to be fluent in one and have a working knowledge of the other.
КУЛТУРА
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Suddenly the College was overrun with Bulgarians - in native dress and with music and dance to capture your soul.
DO UNTO OTHERS
Suzanne & Peter
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This is now the Hotel Navarra on Sint-Jakobstraat in Brugge (Bruges) but then, fifty years ago, it was the College of Europe's student residence.
FLANDERS FIELDS
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In the decade of commemorations, we are still within the centenary of WWI. It is also the 50th anniversary of my visit to Flanders Fields from the College of Europe in 1968.
HOLY BLOOD PROCESSION
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My 1964 guidebook tells me that the Procession of the Holy Blood takes place in Brugge every year on the first Monday following the 2nd of May. Wikipedia tells me it takes place on Ascension Day. Perhaps one is wrong or the day has changed since my time.
ODDS & ENDS
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This was the Bavarian Embassy in Bonn. Well that's how people described it, I suspect half in jest but wholly in earnest.
AFTERMATH
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So what happened after I came down from the Brugge Mountain with my tablets of stone (Certificat d'Études Européennes).
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