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The Diamond City of Antwerp

When you spend so much time in Brussels, you tend to run out of things to do or visit. Normally, people flock to Bruges which is definitely picturesque. Ghent is a close daytrip destination offering equally impressive medieval architecture. But if you still have another day to spare, you might take a peek at Antwerp […]

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Can’t Ghent Enough

We arrived in Ghent drenched in the tremendous freezing winter showers so we thought we wouldn’t be able to wander around the stone-tiled promenades. We still tried and thanks to the well-maintained medieval architecture, the damp and chilly atmosphere does not seem out of place. Ghent is a big city dressed in old town clothing. […]

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Bruges, Snowglobe-Perfect of a Town

I remember at one point in my childhood, it seemed like all the cakes, snow globes, and fairy tale books were decked with these fancy brick houses that made me had my first impression or expectation of how a European village looks like. Around twenty years after, I stumbled upon this friendly village of Bruges […]