Brussels

Belgium or Bust

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September 7th 2011
After London it was onto the Eurostar to Brussels! Warned by many that it was a boring city (there certainly were alot of grey nomads about) we were pleasantly surprised. Had a fantastic hotel, gorged on chocolates and waffles and beer (Tim) we also went to a traditional brewery here and sampled the local beer, Lambic a room temperature flat beer! Very good actually. We took a day trip to medi ... 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