Exploring Tongeren
It was a glorious weekend early May and we debated what to do together with our Canadian visitor. The typical must do's of Belgium might be pretty crowded (especially Bruges was to be avoided with the opening of BRUSK). Canadians are very much outdoor people and we wanted to profit from the sun and not spend time inside musea... and as Belgians we didn't want to drive too much either. We opted out for all big historic cities but Jan all of a sudden proposed to visit Tongeren, our oldest city. I hardly know Tongeren myself so I was happy to discover something new too. Tongeren combined with some wine domains in Limburg etc triggered us through a small road trip in our eastern province. Of we went. We walked via the old city walls to the city center. After a sunny lunch on the market square (that wasn't too busy in this sunny weekend),we started a city walk towards the old Roman remains and the reconstruction of the old Roman temple. Showing off our fir...
