Through the looking glass

Cistercian Success

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July 1st 2009
Happy Canada Day everyone!!! Both the Mission and the Embassy closed on Canada Day, so Christine and I decided to take advantage of the mid-week day off and go and visit something. We decided on Villers-la-Ville, which is a ruined monastery in the middle of a forest about an hour away from Brussels. I was wondering why the train would take an hour to get there, seeing as how the place was ... read more

Europe » Belgium » Walloon Brabant

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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