Having lived in Belgium for exactly ten months now, I've spent a lot of my weekends exploring the many cities and towns around Brussels on day trips. It's been fun to explore this country and experience a new culture. A…
The history in Europe is exceptional - hundreds and thousands of years of knowledge, evolution, innovation and development all clustered on this continent. It should come as no surprise that it seems that every single city then, no matter the…
Living in Brussels has been a wonderfully central place to get to visit easily all the rest that Belgium has to offer. The capital city is located in the heart of Belgium, providing easy access by train or by car…
We moved to Belgium exactly 9 months ago today in September 2020 after a year and a half of chasing our dreams in New Zealand. The move happened dab smack in the middle of the COVID-19 global pandemic and it…
The day was slightly overcast, clouds dotted the blue washed sky. Desperate to get out of Brussels and see something new, with the list of places I hadn't yet seen in Belgium ever-dwindling, I took the train on a Sunday…
In search of sunshine and signs of spring, I went on a solo adventure out to Mons, a small town on the border with France, just south of Tournai. Having not heard or read much about it, I was pleasantly…
The last on the list of the main places we wanted to visit in Belgium was Tournai, a city on the western side of Belgium, right on the French border. Home most famously to the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Tournai and…
It seemed we waited all winter for snow, even driving across the country to try and find it. Turns out, we just had to wait for February to roll around; it snowed last weekend and then a thick blanket of…