Antwerp's Skyline

Antwerpen (a bit of a dorky name if you will)

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May 22nd 2009
Hallo, We bussed up to Antwerp in the morning. En route, we passed a town called Boom (I'm not kidding). Lonely Planet talks about Antwerp being a pretty city but I prefer Milan's description of the city: "It looks like all the residents set their houses on fire and then went back inside to wait it out." None of us found it particularly pretty. We wandered through some of the Old Town, and t ... 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