Door Open

For five years and counting, we've had the good fortune to call Belgium "home".  We've also traveled to places we'd only heard of or read about, learned to understand and speak a little of a foreign language, and grasped the diversity and culture of another continent.

Unless you're a seasoned world traveler, you'll likely never come to Belgium.  Like most, who are lucky enough to travel, you'll go to Paris or Venice or London or Rome . . . 

We have too.

It's a bit unfortunate.  It's a hidden gem.  Belgium.

Often called The Battlefield of Europe because of its central location, it's not an instigator of war, but has often been right in the middle of one.  It may be one of the grayest of places, but it's also one of the greenest. Despite it being sate with castles and cathedrals, breweries and museums, it's never been a tourist destination.  In fact, most who live here might call it boring.

The whole little country is just 1/3 the size of Louisiana, but with a LOT more people.  Belgium has 950 people per square mile to Louisiana's 100 people per square mile.  Dense.  Very dense.

Sooo . . . our door is always open, but if you never get to Belgium . . . you won't see the roads we take, the countryside we drive through, the castles, the rivers, the cities, or the sea in this tiny country.

I discovered a really good video online and if you have about a half hour of free time, I hope you'll watch.

Remember to make the screen big by clicking in the bottom right corner and turn the volume up so you can hear the narration in English (subtitles are in Dutch).