This weekend we took her to the Groot Begijnhof (Beguinage) here in Leuven. It's a neat place, like a tiny city within a city, founded in the 13th century as a community for unmarried, widowed or temporarily single (when their husbands went on crusades) Catholic women (but not nuns). They had everything they needed within the walls of the city. Quite a feminist idea for those times!
These days, the houses have all been renovated by the university and are used for housing for students and visiting professors.
