Belgium - February 20, 2010
February 13 – 16, 2010
It was a wintry day when my wife Madeline and I left Belgium to take a Rizalian Euro tour.
In Stuttgart, we picked up two Filipina friends ,Mrs. Crelencia, Mrs. Go and Mr. Kramski.
We immediately drove along snowy roads to Munich. We had lunch in the same location where Rizal and Maximo Viola drank a beer 1887.
Right after lunch we headed for Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic where we arrived in the evening, in time for our appointment and late dinner with Dr. Vasilljev, husband of the late PhD Vasiljevova who wrote a biography on Dr. Rizal.
The following day(Sunday) , we visited the Budejovice museum, where the curator some 25 files with original-Rizal-Blumentritt documents for us to view.
Monday, 15 Feb we departed early morning. for Wilhelmsfeld (Germany). In this village Rizal lived for two months and finished his Noli me tangere in the vicarage.
From Wilhelmsfeld we drove to Heidelberg where we visited the Rizalian places.
From the town we went up the hill to visit the castle.
On Tuesday, 16 Feb we visited a place where Rizal attended the “Mensur” of the local students. It was an honor for the students to have a lot of scars in their face.
In Heidelberg we were looking if we could find the engraved initials JR. on the tables. This was a habit at that time. We did not find JR but saw the name of the great Bismarck who was here.
Lucien Spittael
My wife Madeline, Mrs. Crelencia, Mrs Go, Me and Mr. Kramski 
Lunch in Munich: Mrs. Go, Mrs. Crelencia and my wife Madeline. 
Rizal’s Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas 
Wilhelmsfeld, Rizal Park with Rizal statue with our local Rizal guide Sir Rainer Weber 
Heidelberg, house where Rizal lived and wrote "A las Flores de Heidelberg" 
Heidelberg, eye clinic where Rizal studied Ophthalmology 
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