Onze Lieve Vrouwe Kathedral

My Truly Belgian Week: Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp & Bruges

---

March 29th 2009
When you buy a travel guide for Brussels, it's more than likely that the towns of Ghent, Antwerp, and Bruges will also be highlighted in the same travel guide. This week, I did as the travel guides say and visited each of these cities. As this was technically supposed to be the last week of my internship, and it was the last week for a couple of the other interns, I decided to make the most of m ... read more

Europe » Belgium » West Flanders » Bruges

---

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