| Federal Districts of Belgium |
| Brussels Capital Region - Flanders - Wallonia |
| Provinces of Flanders | |
|---|---|
| Province of Antwerp | |
| East Flanders | |
| Flemish Brabant | |
| Limburg | |
| West Flanders |
| Cities & towns in Flanders | |
|---|---|
 | Antwerp - The biggest town in Flanders, site of Europe's second largest port and center for the diamond industry, Antwerp is a historic city as well as the most fashionable town in Belgium. Population: 523,248 Aglomeration: +/- 1,000,000 |
 | Ghent - The capital of east Flanders can easily compete with the most beautiful cities in Europe. In some places, you can stop in front of each houses like you would for paintings in a museum. Not to mention its many medieval towers. It is also a student city, and unlike nearby Bruges,, a living city rather than a museum. Population: 260, 341 |
| Bruges | |
 | Leuven |
 | Mechelen |
 | Aalst |
 | Kortrijk |
 | Hasselt |
| Oostende | |
| Genk |
BELGIUM / NETHERLANDS – The title is slightly incorrect, because we didn’t hit the Vehnbahn for one second on this first day of our bike ride holiday. We took off in one of the most southern villages of The Netherlands, named Mesch, to drive our bikes to Eupen, Belgium. This bike ride goes through a…
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BELGIUM – One Sunday, when it was exeptionally nice weather, I decided to cross one more town from my list of Belgian towns I haven’t visited yet: Borgloon. To do this, I cycled north along the N20 from Liège to Tongeren, where I turned west on to the N79 to Sint-Truiden. I didn’t make many…
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BELGIUM – A day trip to Sint-Truiden (FR: Saint-Trond), a town of approximately 20,000 in Belgian Limburg. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised, and that I liked it most of the towns in the region I have visited so far (Aarschot, Tienen, Hoegaarden, Tongeren, Maaseik and Hasselt, all of which I liked…
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BELGIUM/FRANCE – What to do on new year’s day? Party until 11 in the morning and sleep for the rest of the day? Visit family and friends? Go for a walk? Or why not go for a 1300 kilometer drive, along as few as possible motorways, and include as many as possible pointless detours? My…
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BELGIUM – The winter of 2014-15 only lasted one day. And on that day, December the 28th, my friend and WPP co-founder and I set out to continue our exploration of provincial Belgium between my home in Liège and his home in Rijkevorsel. Setting out from Rijkevorsel, we drove south through the Kempen, an empty…
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BELGIUM – Situated about 20 kilometers north east of Brussels, Leuven (FR: Louvain, population: +/- 100,000) is one of Belgium’s most important student towns. The Catholic University of Leuven (which was bilingual until the French-speaking faculties relocated to the purpose-built town of Louvain la Neuve in 1968) is the oldest and biggest university in the…
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BELGIUM – There’s always a turning point in autumn, after which it suddenly feels more like winter. And sometimes that turning point is in the middle of the day. It was on the bright and sunny morning of such a day, October the 19th 2014, that a friend and I set for a bike ride…
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BELGIUM – A town of about 85,000 inhabitants most know for its carnival, Aalst is not quite one of the major towns in Belgium. Situated roughly half way between Brussels and Ghent, it is also not a place many people (inside or outside Belgium) consider visiting, drawn as they are to those bigger and much…
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BELGIUM – Twenty five kilometers south-west of Brussels, Enghien is a small town at meeting point of various regions. Situated just on the Walloon (French-speaking) side of the border with (Dutch-speaking) Flanders, Enghien (NL: Edingen) is one of 12 officially bilingual Belgian municipalities outside of Brussels. It is also on the edge of Picardy, which…
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BELGIUM – Halle (pop.: 38,000) is a provincial Flemish (Dutch-speaking) town sandwiched between Brussels 10 kilometers to the north and Wallonia (the French-speaking part of Belgium) 3 kilometers to the south. It is therefore somehow different from everything that surrounds it. It is also rather a pretty little town. Pictures taken on 2007-12-15 and 2016-01-16. 1….
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When I lived in Antwerp for a year, my favorite area to go for bike rides was the port. Spread out along the river Scheldt (NL: Schelde) for about 25 kilometers (mostly on the eastern bank, where these pictures were made), it is the second largest port in Europe (after Rotterdam), and indeed seems to…
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BELGIUM / FRANCE / THE NETHERLANDS – In the summer of 2006, a friend and I went on a cycling holiday along the Meuse river through the whole of Belgium and a part of France.
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