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The Belgian seaside resort of Knokke-Heist is banning day-trippers until further notice, after a similar move on Sunday by Blankenberge due to violence on the beach.
It’s an idyllic scene.
Today, the Flemish in Brussels are a firmly established community with a large network of organisations and prominent characters – but it wasn’t always that way.
Flanders is providing €800,000 in support for Dutch-language organisations in Brussels, to help them survive the coronavirus.
This year 11 July falls on a Saturday, so what a shame that Vlaanderen Feest had to rein in its celebration because of the coronavirus.
Cyclist Niels De Vriendt died at the weekend during the first practice race organised in Belgium since the start of the coronavirus crisis.
The town of Ypres was a major cloth producer in the middle ages, but we know very little about the people who put it on the map.
While Tour de France cyclists brave the Col du Tourmalet for money and fame, one West Flemish man climbed the notoriously long and steep mountain pass on a space hopper with little fanfare.
The first Stadsloop, or City Circuit, was launched in Aalst last week – in fact three of them. The new jogging routes begin at the Osbroek nature reserve, just outside the city centre.
