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Well Flanders to me doesn't look much different from the western provinces of NL whereas Wallonia looks like less of a "controlled" landscape.
But Wallonia has man-made hedgerows everywhere and its woodlands are organised into tidy little pockets - just like much of England.
Really there's not much wilderness on the North European Plain or in England, most of the landscapes in England, NL and Belgium have been and are still controlled by man to a large extent.
I think the only wildernesses these countries have are their moors and rich coastlines.
Man's influence over the landscape in Wallonia is not as abrupt as it is in Western NL or Eastern England though, it still has some charm. In much of Eastern England there are just massive fields of wheat and it can resemble a featureless steppe sometimes.
Pastoral lands always look a bit more natural than arable I suppose.
Wallonia and the more hilly areas of NL and Flanders remind me of how the English like to see their nation - the gentle rolling hills interspersed by little villages, churches and pockets of woodland. Nothing special, no wilderness, just tranquil calm.
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Ypres (Ieper in dutch), City Hall :
Castle of Chokier :
Bouillon and his castle :
Castle of La Roche-en-Ardenne under the snow :
Durbuy considered as the "smallest city in the world" (a title of freedom was required during the middle-age to be considered as a city) :
Abbey of Orval, famous for his trappist beer :
The abbey of Rochefort, also famous for his trappist beer :
A train on the Vennbahn, a railway line obtained with the treaty of Versailles (unuse anymore) :
The High Fens in the Ardennes (French: Hautes Fagnes; German: Hohes Venn; Dutch: Hoge Venen) :
Les fonds de Quarreux, the Ambleve is full of huge quartzite blocks, which inspired many legends :
An old gold mine, not far away :
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nice pics!
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Brussels, Belgium in 1899
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Vincent Reynouard: Je suis ingénieur chimiste et historien révisionniste français. J’expose de la façon la plus pédagogique possible les arguments révisionnistes. Je propose, j’expose, je n’impose rien. Chacun doit (ou devrait) être libre de se faire une opinion sur le sujet. .
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A flower carpet in Brussels
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How I wish I could live in Belgium
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A2 and E25 in the Netherlands and Belgium from Maastricht to Liège.
The city of Liège long lacked a bypass for north-south traffic folllowing E25 from Maastricht towards Luxembourg. The new bypass opened in 2000, but is a substantial longer route than going through the city. This video shows the old transit route through Liège.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
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