Our penultimate stop was the Flemish city of Ghent in northwestern Belgium. We stayed here almost a week touring the old city and visiting with old friend Tom Plachecki and…

Belgium has become one of our favorite countries. I almost feel bad now, not knowing much about the place and thinking of it as merely a French appendage. It’s so…

In February we paid a visit to Bruges, a lovely town in western Belgium. There we met up with our American friends living in Amsterdam, Scott and Kathleen. While the…

In mid-October we took the Eurostar to the capital of Europe (and Belgium), Brussels. We loved the chocolate and enjoyed the city very much. We arrived into town on Friday…