Nicola, Cath & Jake, Brugge

OUR GRAND EUROPEAN ADVENTURE -The Battlefields of Flanders and the Somme

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April 21st 2013
BELGIUM The next day we headed back out to the airport and picked up our hire car (a much better idea than trying to negotiate the Paris traffic). From there it was straight onto the motorway and up to the WW1 battlefields of Flanders in Belgium. Unfortunately, we didn't have a map or GPS and so we wasted a lot of time getting lost but finally found our way to Mesen (of Messines Ridg ... read more

Europe » Belgium

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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