Liège is the second-largest city in the French-speaking region of Wallonia in Belgium, and the fifth-largest city in…
Times visited: 2 (5 days in 2022 and 1 day in 2024)
Cities visited: Gent, Brussels and Liège
Towns visited: Baarle-Hertog
UNESCO sites visited: 4
I entered Belgium for the first time during a bus journey to Paris in 2012. I remember seeing the giant steel buildings of Brussels and thinking to myself that it lacks character. I didn’t remember anything else about Brussels or Belgium as a whole… Well, for my Easter holiday in 2022, it was finally time to visit Belgium for real.
I teamed up with a bunch of my favourite people and managed to visit three cities during our five days in the country. We slept in an old monastery in Gent, walked the historic streets of the city, found out that Brussels is much more than just ugly steel buildings, ate the most delicious vegan waffles, and fell in love with the city of Liège.
2,5 years later, during a roadtrip in November 2024, I paid a brief visit to Belgium again, this time to visit the perhaps most odd town in the whole country. Baarle-Hertog is a town that is fully surrounded by the Netherlands, but it doesn’t stop there. Inside the town, there are small pockets of the Netherlands too! This means that several streets are split between the two countries, and even some houses and shops are too! It was a fascinating place to spend a day exploring!
