G'day The first thing I noticed about Belgium, was that it is incredibly flat, the second thing was that were a few strange things about. This started as soon as we landed, after the rather normal straight forward landing, the entire plane burst into applause. But then maybe that was because we were flying Turkish Airlines? Philippe was there to greet us at Brussels airport, and whisked us away in his car to his home, just outside of Antwerp. Philippe had taken the week off work to tour us around Belgium and did a wonderful job of playing tour guide, navigator, host and personal translator for the entire week. The slight change in weather (37 degrees in Istanbul, and Belgium was 14) was a little much for Sarah and I. But despite the cold, Antwerp was
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