August 24: I came involuntary in the free chic 'Hotel de la Poste' justified because renting a full dormitory in the Youth Hostel (because of Covid) came out 40 euros more expensive than a single room in the hotel.
Hanging in the lobby was a full-page article from 1987 about the hotel's remarkable history.
Then in the 1970s with the rise of mass tourism to the south the Ardennes tourism fell silent, it went hotel completely lost. It stood for sale or rent for years, until In the late 1970s, a Dutchman fell in love with it and took the risk of making one renovation loan for it. After five difficult years, he got the stately hotel back profitable. The rooms and corridors are back to their original state: creaking parquet floors with a thick fitted carpet About it. Pure nostalgia.
Apart from the exclusive friends of the local nobility who came to hunt in the Ardennes at the time, famous guests staying there were Victor Hugo, Emile Zola and Emperor Napoleon III, the latter admittedly as a prisoner of war in 1870.
16 September: Opening the door at Diamondway Buddhist Centre in Tallinn The centre's meditation sessions are open
