Gent love is no age. It is a wisdom that Henri Cansse (98) and Adriana Schneider (95) together every day in practice. Today fourth the Ghent couple of their 78 th wedding anniversary at home in their apartment in Wondelgem. Only few couples do it after them.
Henri and Adriana were neighbors in the Australiëstraat: a street near the Afrikalaan that now no longer exists. 20 and 17 they were when they got married gave during the Second world War in 1941. “Of course, it was not an easy period, but time to wait was not there,” says Adriana. “I remember the day of our wedding, the Muidebrug was faulty. We had to walk to the city for our marriage to take place. You can now even difficult to imagine, but we have hunger ago when and money for a wedding picture was not there.” Henri was after the war a foreman in the docks and Adriana brought her daughter, Gerarda.
