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Category Archives: Belgium
Happy New Year for 2020
This post was written early January but somehow didn’t get published! It started by saying that I was earlier this year than I was last year in wishing you all the best for the coming but I was sad to … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Belgium, Blois, Cycling, Denmark, Germany, Home exchange
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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Mussels & Bread
This week’s blogger round-up is all about food. Paula McInerney from Contented Traveller reports on eating mussels in Brussels, which it’s a very popular food in France as well. We buy them on the Sunday market. And it’s the Fête du … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Food, France, Paris, Weekly Blogger Round-Up
Tagged bread festival, Brussels, fête du pain, mussels, weekly blogger round-up
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Original souvenirs from Paris – A hymn – Last minute change of plans from Burgundy to Belgium and from wine to beer
This week, in my bloggers’ round-up, Pierre from Paris on Demand suggests some original souvenirs from Paris, Sylvia from Finding Noon takes us to a Chagall exhibition in Paris that is on until 21st July and Mary Kay from Out … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Belgium, Paris, Sightseeing
Tagged Antwerp, Belgium, Chagall exhibition, Finding Noon, Ghent, Out and About in Paris, Paris on Demand, souvenirs
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Liege-Guillemins – Europe’s Most Impressive Railway Station – Fougères and the St. James American Cemetary, Brittany – Cycling the Atlantic Coast: Likes, Dislikes and What I Would Do Differently
In my bloggers’ round-up this week, we start off in Liège in Belgium with a description of an iconic railway station by Kathy Standford from Femmes Francophiles who also shares her impressions of the Thalys train service. Abby from Paris … Continue reading

Posted in Accommodation, Belgium, Cycling, France, Sightseeing, Travelling
Tagged Atlantic Coast, Experience France by BIke, femmes francophiles, Fougères, Liège, Paris Weekender
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