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Spring cycling classics in Belgium - our first day

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March 21st 2013
Hello everybody! Today was our first day in Belgium. We arrived after an overnight flight this morning at about 7 am And decided that since we were already in Brussels, we should travel to Bastogne to visit the Battle of the Bulge museum. So we fired up our Garmin, set it to kilometers, braced oushelves for the roundabout roulette game and off we went. It turned out to be about an hour and a half ... read more

Europe » Belgium » Namur Province

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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