What should I find in Bruno's mail when he's not home but a newsletter dropped by a Vlaams Belang volunteer and a nice issue of the city-published Onder den Toren. The publication certainly does a good job of making Mechelen look amazing.
Let's take a closer look. There's a photo of a man at his laptop on the south side of the Grote Markt, sitting in a cafe bent towards the flickering mechelen.be website. This may seem like a normal image in some cultures, but stage this in Mechelen or even Antwerpen and you will get generously stared at by all guests and passerby. Not to mention that there is no wireless on the Grote Markt and that the newly redesigned site is the poorest looking thing in the photo.
Next is an offer made for the free-eats list: The opendeurdag of the Huis van de Mechelaar with "taart en drank". Makes me wish that Mechelen was at walking distance for my fellow freeloading Yalies. (Sad note: I missed the date.)
The centerfold made me double over thinking that the photo of Josephine and Victor taken by some media photographer in Lamot had actually been published in poster-size format: a middle-aged Chinese couple, the man holding an old-fashioned camera advertising an amateur photo contest, thuisindestad.be. Why they chose that particular picture to entice Flemish people into taking photos of their Flemish towns, I cannot divine.
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