'Villa Wallfahrt' was perhaps my favourite Belgian house I visited on my few trips to the continent. It had many different names within the community at the time for some reason, and when I was planning this trip it was one of the places I most wanted to see even though it was a proper Belgian tourbus stop.
The house, like many in Belgium, was left fully furnished and had a crazy amount of stuff left inside. Not only that it also had it's own private chapel on the first floor which I know confused people but after I did some digging in the drawers and cupboards and found paperwork, letters and all that a bigger picture of the property became clear. It wasn't just a simply fancy private residence, in actual fact it was a religious hospice for terminal cancer patients which gave it that bit more of a weight in my mind.
The weather on my visit was absolutely appalling, freezing cold and pouring down with rain. We decided to take the difficult way into the building and stumbled across a couple of other explorers inside who thankfully had better English than my French/Dutch! It was, of course, a place that suffered greatly at the hands of those who like to stage elaborate scenes with the belongings left in houses which seems to be normal practice on the continent, I tried my best to avoid shooting the more ridiculous ones.
A few years ago the property began to be renovated so I'd imagine it's long since completed now.
Thanks for looking
The house, like many in Belgium, was left fully furnished and had a crazy amount of stuff left inside. Not only that it also had it's own private chapel on the first floor which I know confused people but after I did some digging in the drawers and cupboards and found paperwork, letters and all that a bigger picture of the property became clear. It wasn't just a simply fancy private residence, in actual fact it was a religious hospice for terminal cancer patients which gave it that bit more of a weight in my mind.
The weather on my visit was absolutely appalling, freezing cold and pouring down with rain. We decided to take the difficult way into the building and stumbled across a couple of other explorers inside who thankfully had better English than my French/Dutch! It was, of course, a place that suffered greatly at the hands of those who like to stage elaborate scenes with the belongings left in houses which seems to be normal practice on the continent, I tried my best to avoid shooting the more ridiculous ones.
A few years ago the property began to be renovated so I'd imagine it's long since completed now.
Thanks for looking
