Did we ever see it coming ? / Will we ever let it go ? / We are buried in broken dreams / We are knee deep without a plea August 8th 2019 We are both excited to be leaving Calais - M navigates us into Belgium and on up to Bruges - 116 km
Bruges is a canal based city - the Venice of the North - a medieval town virtually untouched - surrounded by gingerbread houses, cobbled alleys (creating a maze of one way streets) giant white swans and many varieties of ducks.
Bruges was occupied in both WW I and WW II but neither the Allied ... 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