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Belgium is a small country, but it is also much diversified. Flanders, for example, offers miles after miles of North Sea beaches and wide, flat Polder landscapes with quiet roads. Additionally, numerous towns attract with different kinds of art the culture freaks among the biker; Bruges (Bruges), Antwerp (Anvers), Ghent (Gand) or also Löwen (Louvain/Leuven) belong to it. Further to the south miles of green hills line up one after another. At Walloon begins the French-speaking part of the country. Romantic canyons invite for pleasure rides in between the wooded mountains of the Ardennes.
Belgians especially like a cuisine of game and seafood. Famous are Belgian chocolates and butter waffles. The mountain farmers in the Ardennes "conjure" good hams and sausages. After the ride one extinguishes the thirst best with a Belgian beer; there are about 400 different kinds.
Some geography:
The Kingdom of Belgium stretches over an area of more than 30,000 square kilometers and has about 10 million inhabitants. Languages of the country are Dutch, French and German. The prevailing majority is of Catholic belief. The Belgians celebrate their national holiday on July 21st, on that day the 1st Belgian king, Leopold I., was inaugurated. |
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