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Binche Mark | Norman Miller

Binche masquerades as just another sleepy medieval Belgian town until three mad days in early March when it hosts one of the world’s oldest carnivals, and one of its strangest parades

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Brussels and Strasbourg | Solange Hando | Belgium, Brussels and around, Brussels

The old Guildhouses dazzle with gables and turrets, arcades and colonnades but the Townhall steals the show, a 15th century extravaganza topped by a slightly crooked belfry

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Brussels: Baroque v. Bureauc | Jonathan Begg | Belgium, Brussels and around, Brussels

Brussels, they said. Beer and cathedrals, I thought, with a G.K. Chesterton swagger, trying not to remember how grey and metallic Brussels always seemed to sound on News at Ten

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Ghent Travel | Vijai Maheshwari | Belgium, Flanders, Ghent

At one bar, Krawietel, Iranian emigres asked for our autographs before launching into a Sufi version of Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

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Historic towns of the Low Countries | Christopher Somerville | France, Pas-de-Calais, Arras

Full of fine medieval architecture, awash with the best beer in Continental Europe, their museums and churches stuffed with art treasures, it is astonishing that they are not entirely swamped by British tourists...

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In Flanders Fields: John McCrae | Peter D Smith | Belgium, Flanders, Ypres

The Germans shipped their dead back home to the fatherland for burial, or at least most of them, for one ossuary near Ypres contains the bones of 24,000 German soldiers

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Passchendaele to the Somme | Rebecca Ford | Belgium, Flanders, Ypres

Apparently after the battle Haig's Chief of Staff visited the front and burst into tears crying "Good God, did we really send men to fight in that?"

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Walking the Western Front | Rebecca Ford | Belgium, Flanders, Ypres

The countryside in France and Flanders is still recovering from the fighting. Every year, in what is known as the Iron Harvest, farmers dig up thousands of tons of old shells and gas canisters

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