Luca

Weekend at the Farm

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January 28th 2009
I kept hearing from Dani and her family that we should go visit their wonderful family friends that lived on a farm in a small town in Belgium. This last weekend we were finally able to coordinate that trip for quite possibly my favorite weekend in Europe thus far. Dani headed up on Thursday night after her classes and I followed on Friday evening. The train from Paris to Lille, a city in the nort ... read more

Europe » Belgium

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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