WW1 trenches

In Bruges

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June 16th 2008
Hello Everyone! It’s Monday night here in London and we’re relaxing after a long a busy weekend! I booked a weekend trip for us both to Bruges in Belgium as part of Robs birthday present. We had to get up at the unfortunate hour of 5.30am and make our way to the coach stop for a 7am departure. I don’t really know what we expected but in the end there was only 19 people on our tour, which wa ... 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