The cool pot-belly stove...

Saturday in Bruges...

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March 5th 2011
Saturday 5 March 2011 ...accompanied by anyone within 2hrs by fast train!! (e.g. we had breakfast with a Parisian couple who are here just for the weekend!). We thought we were cold in Luxembourg! Well, it was REALLY COLD in Bruges today - we had to keep ducking into bars to warm up! The first one we called into was the oldest (1515) pub in Bruges - Herberg Vlissinghe - where, ... 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