B&B Piet and Trui Baes-Van Holme Brugge
Boudewijn Ravestraat 48 Brugge, West Flanders, Belgium
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... and the internal dynamics of family businesses, new activities were developed, so that the region reached an extraordinarily high level of prosperity.
This period is characterized by social and cultural emancipation: the good relations between the workers and their employers, mostly in family businesses, supported local prosperity. The Flemish culture as well as the Dutch language have taken a firm position in the bilingual Belgian state.
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From "Flander's fields" to Westvleteren
... 8217;s brew place and I should say a little about the beer and the men that brew it. For a couple of hundred years the beer Westvleteren has been brewed by the Saint Sixtus, Trappist Monks of the town of Westvleteren. It is a one of seven trappist beers in the world. To be a trappist beer the beer must be brewed inside the monastery walls, and it is brewed in the Saint Sixtus Monastery. The monks have vowed celibacy, ...
This is one city I will visit again
... I just strolled back and forth across, sometimes stopping to take pictures, sometimes stopping for coffee or a beer and to read. You can feel the vibe of all the good people. You can see it in their facial expressions and their body language. There are hundreds of bikes in town and not one is locked up. No one is afraid of anyone walking out on their tab at restaurants. Everyone is genuinely happy and enjoying ...
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 ...


