Belgium
A Flemish love affair. Art, chocolate, beaches and Marvin Gaye.
15/08/2024 .
The Yorkshire Trench Extraordinary Re-Opening. Ypres.
11/09/2023 .
Andy Mossack attends the Yorkshire Trench extraordinary re-opening in Flanders after essential restoration work.
Read the full story hereGuide to Three Flanders Cities. Belgium
10/05/2022 .
Rupert Parker explores three Flanders Cities and discovers Bruges isn’t the only great Flanders city worth a visit.
Read the full story hereInsider Guide to Antwerp
11/12/2014 .
Antwerp is not chocolate box beautiful like Bruges, nor does it have that busy pick and mix’ selection combination of transient Eurocrats and tourists you taste in Brussels. Belgium’s second city is more ‘urban praline’ so in Isabel’s Insider Guide to Antwerp, you can look forward to savouring a luscious centre wrapped up in delicious outer coatings.
Read the full story hereMaastricht. The centre of Europe
14/09/2014 .
The Netherlands most southerly city of Maastricht can rightly claim the title “Centre of Europe” symbolizing the European dream ever since the signing of the historic Maastricht Treaty back in 1992.
Read the full story hereWaterloo. Belgium’s battlefield can be a big break too.
30/07/2013This entry was posted in Belgium, Brussels, Europe and Middle East and tagged battle of waterloo, famous battlefields, waterloo on .
Mid June and it’s the eve of the annual re-enactment of Wellington’s famous victory over Napoleon in 1815. I am looking out at the battlefield atop the Lion Mound, some 140 feet up offering up an impressive 360 degree view.
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