When my sister came to visit me at the end of May, we decided she had seen already a big part of Belgium and Steven came up with an idea to take us to see the windmills of Kinderdijk and the closeby town Dordrecht, both located in the South Holland.…
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Monschau is a small medieval town in the Aachen district in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, very close to the border with Belgium. Cobbled streets with half-timbered houses forming a fairytale town build at the Rur River, make it an idyllic escape in terms of a day trip from Brussels. You…
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Last year in June, I got to visit the still quite new museum of contemporary art in Paris, the Louis Vuitton Foundation located in Bois de Boulogne. This majestic and elegant building is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture and definitely needs a visit when in Paris, you will be blown…
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My Favorite Christmas Markets Worth a Day Trip from Brussels
by MichaelaEven though we have a nice Christmas market in Brussels, we love to visit other markets in the neighborhood. Here are my favorite Christmas markets worth a day trip from Brussels. Whether you are in Brussels or anywhere close by, check these out! 😉 Monschau, Germany Monschau is a…
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Last weekend in October I had the pleasure to visit Le Salon du Chocolat that was held from 28th October till 1st November in Porte de Versailles in Paris. Although this Chocolate Fair is organized in 32 cities all over the world, Le Salon du Chocolat in Paris is the world’s…
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Versailles, one of the most splendid castles ever and an important seat of the French kings for centuries, lies about 20 km South-West from Paris. The present appearance of the complex owns a lot to Louis XIV., alias the King of the Sun, who transformed a small hunting residence to a sumptuous palace. The gardens…
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Amsterdam is one of the most charming cities I have ever visited. Beautiful historical center with canal maze, hundreds of small beautiful bridges and narrow streets, houses with large windows so that they catch the most of the sunshine (when there is any), some great museums, cheese, tulips, famous Red Light District…
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Bernkastel-Kues is an charming old town in the region of Moselle, a very West part of Germany. It is a town rich in history and culture and offers many opportunities how to spend a day or weekend. A day trip to Bernkastel-Kues that lies only 2,5 hours’ drive from Brussels.…
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I have visited Champagne region in France twice. My first trip to Champagne was to the Southern part Côte des Bars and this year we visited the heart of Champagne – Côte des Blancs. My sister came to visit me in Belgium, so we took her there, hoping she might develop a passion for…
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My first trip to Champagne was more precisely to Côte des Bar (in Aube department, between villages Bar-sur-Seine and Bar-sur-Aube). As already mentioned before in my general post about Champagne, we are talking about a wine region where Pinot Noir is predominantly gown type of grapes. We visited Côte des…
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