Writer: Anna Nilsson Spets
In Belgium, the country where I have lived for almost 16 years, the country is divided into ten provinces. I live on the border between two; Antwerp and Limburg.
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Guest writer: Anna Nilsson Spets
The big event of the autumn in Belgium, or at least the most expensive, was the Pope's visit to the country. It was over in a couple of days and included four minutes of dialogue with sexually abused victims within the Catholic Church. Four minutes ...
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Guest writer: Anna Nilsson Spets
Many people wonder what it's like to live in another country, are you and will you remain Swedish?
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Guest writer: Anna Nilsson Spets
Belgium, the country where I have lived for 15 years, has a sad piece of colonial history in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, then the Belgian Congo.
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Guest writer: Anna Nilsson Spets
In Catholic Belgium there are many monasteries that are well worth visiting. Here we say abbey, and how to explain the difference between that and a monastery would take far too long. Most of our abbeys welcome visitors, have guided tours and beautiful hiking trails around them.
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Guest writer: Anna Nilsson Spets
Soon, very soon, the lemming train to the Blue Forest will start, although here in Belgium we have no lemmings.
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Guest writer: Anna Nilsson Spets
The shrimp fisherman sits on a tonne of horse, pulling a trawl, back and forth in the shallows off the Belgian coastal town of Koksijde. It's shrimp trawling and I've travelled almost two and a half hours to see this old-fashioned way of fishing, which is actually a UNESCO heritage site.
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Guest writer: Anna Nilsson Spets
Antwerp is my closest city here in Belgium and is for me associated with architecture and culture. An hour's train ride and I get off at the central station, which is a work of art in itself.
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Guest writer: Anna Nilsson Spets
If you want to do something completely different in Belgium, head to the community of Doel, just outside Antwerp.
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Guest writer: Anna Nilsson Spets
Yep, I live here, not in Brussels but about an hour away. Fourteen years ago I followed my heart and left everything and Sweden, that was on 1 April, that says it all.
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