St Michels up close

[R] Belgium

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September 10th 2007
Finding our hotel was a nightmare. We must have missed a turn on the ring road coming into Brussels, and from then on our written instructions on how to get to the hotel no longer helped. The street the hotel was located on didn't exist on our map which was decidedly unfortunate but we eventually made it to the hotel about 9.30pm and checked in, pretty tired from all the searching. The followin ... 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