Greggs!

Farewell to Belgium!

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July 7th 2008
Our whistle-stop tour of Belgium ended with a brief trip to Antwerp-on realising our train to Amsterdam went through the city, we couldn't resist stopping off there to see the location of Rob Lee's famous hat-trick of headers in NUFC's return to European football in 1994 (well, famous to people in Newcastle, anyway!) ;o) Our train was at 7:30am and it was a double-decker, which I found quite excit ... read more

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Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830 and was occupied by Germany during World Wars I and II. It has prospered in the past half century as a modern, technologically advanced European state and member of NATO and the EU. Tensions bet... ... read more