The amazing canals at the foot of the kings gardens

Week 33 - Blengy mine, Batism in Southern Paris.

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September 28th 2012
12/09/2012 Once a month, we exchange students are taken from the grimy depths of the carre, to go do a rotary planned activity somewhere in Belgium for the afternoon. After all meeting up at Liege around 2, we all jumped on a bus and took the half-an-hour-or-so bus ride to Blegny, where we’d be descending down 60 vertical meters into an abandoned coal mine, and having a walk around down there. ... 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