Category: Belgium
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Farm Overnight 🇧🇪
A simple overnight in Belgium 🇧🇪 before returning home.
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Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery 🇧🇪
It is difficult to put to words how sobering and simultaneously beautiful this event was.
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Ghent, Belgium 🇧🇪
A visit to Ghent offers a captivating blend of medieval charm, vibrant culture, and world-class art. The highlight is the Ghent Altarpiece in St. Bavo’s Cathedral—one of the most important paintings in Western art and a central focus in the film The Monuments Men due to its dramatic rescue from Nazi looting. Wandering Ghent’s cobbled…
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Brugge, Belgium 🇧🇪
The first stop on the Monument Men inspired tour was charming Brugge, home of Michelangelo’s sculpture Madonna and Child. Also home to Basilica of the Holy Blood – A revered 12th-century church in Bruges, known for housing a relic believed to contain the blood of Jesus Christ, brought back from the Crusades. The basilica features…
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Bastogne Memorial Tour 🇧🇪
Visiting the Bastogne War Museum and the Mardasson Memorial is a powerful journey through the history of the Battle of the Bulge. The museum’s immersive exhibits, personal testimonies, and detailed battlefield maps make it easy to grasp the immense challenges faced by the soldiers who fought in the harsh winter of 1944–45. The War Room…
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Pairi Daiza 🇧🇪
Pairi Daiza is a 75‑hectare award‑winning zoo and botanical garden in Brugelette, Belgium, home to over 7,500 animals across 800+ species, including giant pandas, elephants, polar bears, and more . The park is divided into nine thematic “worlds,” featuring immersive landscapes—from the largest Chinese and Indonesian gardens in Europe to Arctic habitats—blending cultural architecture and wildlife ….
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Blooms & Venetian Flair at Groot-Bijgaarden Castle 🇧🇪
For a quick weekend escape, we headed to Belgium to visit Groot-Bijgaarden Castle, just outside Brussels. Every spring, the castle grounds transform into a dazzling display of flowers, and it’s the perfect mix of history and beauty. We wandered through gardens bursting with tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths, each pathway leading to another colorful surprise. The…
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Bluebells & Battlefields in Belgium 🇧🇪
Once a year, the forest of Hallerbos near Halle, Belgium, bursts into bloom, carpeting the woods in endless waves of bluebells. We felt lucky to catch it this year—and even luckier that we packed rain boots. The trails were muddy in places, but the misty atmosphere made the forest feel almost enchanted. Between dodging raindrops,…
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Icons of Innovation and Chocolate Creation 🇧🇪
Our final full day in Brussels began with a picnic breakfast and an early visit to the Atomium. Built for the 1958 World’s Fair (Expo 58), the Atomium symbolizes scientific optimism and progress. Its nine connected spheres form a magnified model of an iron crystal—165 billion times larger than the real structure. From the top…
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Antwerp Adventures and a Sea of Flowers 🇧🇪
We caught the IC train north to Antwerp, just under an hour away. The city’s Central Station is often called the most beautiful train station in Europe—and for good reason. Built between 1895 and 1905, it combines iron, marble, and glass in spectacular harmony, earning the nickname “the railway cathedral.” Our morning began with an…