{"id":6175,"date":"2024-07-29T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2024-07-29T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:00:11","slug":"belgium-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/29\/belgium-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We spent about 3.5 months in Belgium visiting R’s family and organising my visa, ID cards, healthcare, a car, etc. While there, we had a few visitors and made several day trips visiting different places in Belgium. Here is a quick overview of the places we visited (in alphabetical order, not chronological).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antwerp<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We spent several days (nearly once per week) visiting Antwerp. It’s such a great city! It has a beautiful cathedral filled with Rubens paintings, several nice squares, nooks and crannies and some fun museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downtown<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Cathedral<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Antwerp cathedral is really beautiful and has several Rubens paintings (he’s from Antwerp).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Illusion museum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This was a fun museum that we spent a couple of hours in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bruges (Brugge)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This town is very popular and is always packed with tourists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brussels<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Gent (Ghent)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gent is probably my favourite place in Belgium. What’s not to love about a town with 2 castles in it and several canals? I’m not sure why internationally Bruges is known more as a tourist destination than Gent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ypers \/ Iper and Flanders Fields<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We spent the day teaching the kids about the various WWI battles that were fought in southwestern Belgium. We visited various cemeteries (allied forces and a German one). And we spent some time in the town of Ypers which was completely destroyed during WWI, but has since been rebuilt as it originally was. They had a really amazing Flanders Fields museum there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

And of course, one of the best things about visiting Belgium is drinking the delicious beers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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