Category: Travel Writing
It needs, indeed, an effort of the imagination at the moment of writing to think of Belgium as in any sense a component part of "Beautiful Europe." The unhappy "cockpit" of the Continent at the actual hour is again in process of accomplishing its frightful destiny--no treaty,...
It needs, indeed, an effort of the imagination at the moment of writing to think of Belgium as in any sense a component part of "Beautiful Europe." The unhappy "cockpit" of the...
2. Chapter 2We cannot, of course, attempt, in a mere superficial sketch like this, even to summarize briefly the wealth of objects of interest in Bruges, or to guide the visitor in detail t...
3. Chapter 3The railway journey from Brussels to Antwerp traverses a typical bit of Belgian landscape that is as flat as a pancake; and the monotony is only relieved, first by the little to...
4. Chapter 4From Liege, if you like, you may penetrate the Ardennes--I do not know whether Shakespeare was thinking in "As You Like It" of this woodland or of his own Warwickshire forest of...