WATERLOO BATTLE FIELD RENOVATION ONE YEAR LATER

February 2, 2015

In less than 200 days, Waterloo celebrates the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo. The festivities will take place over five days, from 17 to 21 June 2015.

The organizers expect more than 120 000 spectators. 5,000 soldiers will participate at the reconstitution of the battle with 300 horses and 100 cannons !

As there is no much time left and I live nearly on the battle field, I went there yesterday to see how the renovation works had progressed since my last post in January 2014.



When I arrived the Lion hadn't changed its look



The Wellington café was still there



The Panorama too





as well as the posters representing the battle



A part of the battle field was behind a fence



 And then the nightmare started on the other side



Napoleon was wrapped in a plastic bag, so he couldn't see what happened



Just besides him the beautiful old houses had been demolished and a new built was under construction !



From far the remaining houses looked quite normal






but on a closer look they hadn't been renovated yet ! 



A memorial had been built under the ground



There is still a lot of work to be done







And on the top of the  memorial there was a real mess. I wonder for what these white blocks will be used.

Now I start to doubt if everything will be finished for the 17th June ! There is still so much work to be done !

Previous post about the renovation  here