Village with Castle

Alsace France

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December 8th 2008
Hello Evryone, Last weekend i went with my host family to Alsace France to see the Xmas Markets. Canada has nothing in comparrison to this. Friday we drove the 5 hours to Alsace and on the way we stopped at this really cool place to eat-which is a pig farm-and they have a lot of smoked pork here. We got to our hotel at like 11 so we just went to sleep after that Saturday was a pretty busy d ... read more

Europe » Belgium » Hainaut » Charleroi

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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