THE MORNING LIST
Certainly, the Belgian capital is ” The most beautiful “as Angèle sings so well in Brussels, I love you. Which should not prevent us from being unfaithful to him. And rather five times than one! Let’s set off to discover another Belgium, from the North Sea to the Meuse valley, from the streets of Mechelen to the museums of Antwerp, from the port of Ghent to the breweries of Louvain.
In Antwerp, happy sobriety
The austere gray door, topped with a half-moon glass, only opens after having been duly identified at the intercom… An unusual welcome from a city center hotel and which takes everything its meaning once the threshold has been crossed. “We made this choice for greater discretion and so that our guests have the feeling of coming home”explains Angelo De Coen, operations director at Hôtel Julien, located in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Mechelen, under the cobblestones of the Dyle
Little Mechelen lives in the shadow of the famous Brussels, Antwerp and Bruges. Twenty minutes by train from the Belgian capital, this Flemish city, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, nevertheless has the charm of its sisters, without the tourists! This city, which was one of the capitals of the Burgundian Netherlands, a state straddling the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France, in the 15the and XVIe centuries, has preserved listed monuments, baroque facades and rural streets. Without the city-museum side, because, from the Grote Markt (“Grand Place”) on the banks of the Dyle, Mechelen lives day and night.
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Maritime Flanders, from Aa to the other Sahara
Flanders knows no borders. On the edge of the North Sea, it happily spans the line that separates France from Belgium between Bray-Dunes and La Panne. So-called “maritime” Flanders begins in France on the banks of the Aa, the coastal river best known to cruciverbists, by the Platier-d’Oye reserve.
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Five bike rides across the flat country
If the Flemish network of cycle paths offers for a long time there have been many opportunities for walks, Wallonia is quickly catching up thanks to the autonomous network of slow lanes, built along towpaths or on old railway lines. The atmosphere is guaranteed and the gastronomic tradition is there.
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Ghent, gentle as a lamb
A city of 260,000 inhabitants, capital of East Flanders, where a river, the Scheldt, and a river, the Lys, meet, a historic center where pedestrians and bicycles are kings and cars are not welcome , architectural and pictorial riches, vegetarian restaurants that will make you lose your fork… Ghent, proof in five.
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