“Vorwärts, und nicht vergessen,
worin unsere Stärke besteht!
Beim Hungern und beim Essen,
Vorwärts, nie vergessen
die Solidarität!”

(Bertolt Brecht in Das Solidaritätslied)
Awans (B)

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“What are you able to build with your blocks?
Castles and palaces, temples and docks.
Rain may keep raining, and others go roam,
But I can be happy and building at home.”

(R.L. Stevenson in Block city)
Balen (B)

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“In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines“

(The Beatles in Yellow Submarine)
Rotterdam (NL)

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“The grass is thick and cool, it lets us lie.
Kissed upon either cheek and either eye,
I turn to thee as some green afternoon
Turns toward sunset, and is loth to die;
Ah God, ah God, that day should be so soon.”

(A. Ch. Swinburne in In the orchard)
Verviers (B)

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