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Brussels to De Panne
... WWI, they never reached De Panne, so the Beizers thought this point might be out of reach of the Nazis. Unfortunately the two days my mom and I had allotted for the 140 km bike ride from Brussels to De Panne was not enough time (especially considering the only bikes we could rent looked, and rode, like they had been taken off the set of a Sound of Music production), so we finished the last leg by train. It was a great experience doing this ride while imagining what it ...
Good Decisions
... so much character to the house. Our room is way more than I expected - she had gathered up two extra twin sized mattresses so we had three mattresses laid out in a large pink room. After admiring the two-story three bedroom house we went outside to join the rest of the barbecue. Appertifs (appetizers and drinks before dinner) included Hoegaarden beer, various chips, pistachios, mini cream cheese chunks with yummy spices on top, and these small pastries stuffed with ...
"In Bruges"
... winding canals, and its general atmosphere of a city of the middle ages.
The train ride from Brussels was around an hour and the morning once again started off dreary. There is a belgian french word for the misty rain that is so common here. The wetness isn't enough to really warrant an umbrella, but stand in it any amount of time more than 10 minutes, and you will be just as completely wet as if it were truly ...
The Origin of Post-Waffleism
... tailor made for Steel.
See our photos for canal shots and such of Bruges. Unfortunately, Kristine was so trigger happy that our camera battery died just before we entered the main square of Bruges (forehead slap). So you can view the Markt in all its splendour by following this link: http://bp0.blogger.com/_G3gOTRwttos/R7K 7e_AJViI/AAAAAAAAAEM/gffOcKGlS9s/s1600- h/800px-PanoBrug_-_IMG_6015_-_IMG_6019_ ...
A day in Ieper
... existed since at least the 1st century CE, as history records it being raided by the Romans. It grew in size and importance and became a textile center in the 13-16th centuries, during which time the towering Cloth Hall was built.
And then World War I happened. Ieper stood directly in the path of the Schlieffen Plan, Germany's strategy for winning the war. Once this plan had failed, the city stood between the Germans ...
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