tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743085062252065006.post899228309425435934..comments2023-06-23T13:22:05.590+02:00Comments on Beyond Brussels: Taizé Brussels 2008Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315105493443923507noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743085062252065006.post-81852578113516717222009-01-11T12:43:00.000+01:002009-01-11T12:43:00.000+01:00Kasja, how awful! I do hope you made the problem k...Kasja, how awful! I do hope you made the problem known to the parish organizers. The brothers of Taizé were quite insistent that 2 square metres of floorspace, and breakfast, was all that you would require, but it is sad that the spirit of hospitality should be lacking where the objective requirements were met. I am confident that the Poles won't fail as hosts, but as we say in English, "There's always one that spoils it."Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04315105493443923507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743085062252065006.post-49020774801330124042009-01-09T19:14:00.000+01:002009-01-09T19:14:00.000+01:00I was a participant in the Taize Meeting in Brusse...I was a participant in the Taize Meeting in Brussels and I was accomodated in a small town nearby. I think that my hosts treated "the floorspace" requirement too seriously - they put me and my friends in a basement with almost no heating (it was really freezing down there) and treated us as if we were savage... I would say that it's better when some people state clearly that they don't want strangers in their houses than when pressed by the community they do something they don't really want to and make foreigners (I'm from Poland) think that people from Belgium don't know what hospitality means. Thus, I invite you to Poland this year, the meeting will be held in Poznan, I hope that Poles won't fail as hosts. GreetingsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743085062252065006.post-65682188549664088342008-12-30T11:33:00.000+01:002008-12-30T11:33:00.000+01:00Well we got there in the end, but it was slow goin...Well we got there in the end, but it was slow going. There are six staying at our house (two from Italy, two from Poland, two from Sweden). They seem pleasant enough, on a brief acquaintance. One of the Italians teaches in a Don Bosco school.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04315105493443923507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6743085062252065006.post-41257265120854034122008-12-29T21:23:00.000+01:002008-12-29T21:23:00.000+01:00That's such a shame. If my house wasn't full to th...That's such a shame. If my house wasn't full to the rafters already it would be the greatest pleasure I could imagine to host these wonderful young people!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com