Aarsabroch Bed & Breakfast Brugge
Wantestraat 98 Brugge, West Flanders, 8310, Belgium
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Kortrijk
... situated on the crossroads of Tongeren-Kassel and Tournai-Oudenburg. Caroticum is a Latin form of an old Celtic name.
In Roman times Kortrijk saw its first trade activity at the junction of two Roman roads. In the 5th century the Romans made way for the Frankish, who converted to Christianism.
Between the 9th and the 18th centuries, Kortrijk was part of the County of Flanders. This county was continuously endangered by the great ...
From "Flander's fields" to Westvleteren
... medieval town in the ninth century that was once larger than London, a heavily fortified castle town in the fourteenth century built by the French, fought over many times, and completely turned to dust from 1914-1918 during World War I. Ieper was one of the major arteries of the “Western Front,” hundreds of thousands of British soldiers lost their lives protecting Ieper and probably close to a million soldiers all ...
This is one city I will visit again
After a few days in Brussels I made my way to the medieval town of Brugge. There were a lot of tourists, but it, in no way, shape, or form, took away from the splendor of the city. Brugge, like many cities in Belgium, had tall gothic clock towers and cathedrals with spires that towered over the city, all a half a millennium old. Just to walk around the city is pleasant. At forty-five minutes to cross the city ...
In Flanders Fields the poppies grow..
... Sanctuary Wood Cemetary off the Menin road has a memorial to the Canadian dead and views across to Ypres. Any raised ground in a land of flat was clearly instrumental in any victory and so was fought for constantly here.
The cemetary was the first I have been to of it's type. Rows and rows of white gravestones, perfectly aligned, classified in rows with a letter and a number due to the sheer number present. I was glad to be able to stand alone amongst ...
"In 80 yds, Turn Right!!"
... green beans that they had offered as a side dish. It was 47 Euro. The green beans shown on the bill were 6 Euro, or 5 pounds. There goes your tip lads. It's not their fault I guess, we could have checked the price and then said no - we had wrongly assumed that some green beans which have a cost of maybe 0.2 Euro should cost no more than say 2-3 Euro max. We were wrong.
I didn't tip. We walked away and went to bed. A mixed bag for the first day in Bruges. We like it ...


