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Grand Place at night  
   

Grand Place at night

Chocolate and art

July 16th 2005
We flew to Brussels, Belgium yesterday. The moment we stepped out of the train station we knew for sure that we've left Greece behind. Venerable, art nouveau-ish buildings surround us instead of the modern, concrete, boxes that is Athens. The food here costs a night's accomodation in Greece so we've been surviving mainly on leftover marble cakes, bagel chips, and Pizza Hut when we decided to splur ... read more
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Belgian Flag 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
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