Part of my heritage and where my last name comes from. My dream is to visit one day and see where my grandfather came from. My great Grandfather fled Belgium just before the Germans invaded in WW1 my grandfather was 7yrs old, my great grandfather worked in Sydney mines cape Breton Nova Scotia until a mine collapse took his life, my grandfather also went to work in the mines at 11yrs old the men would carry his lunchbox because he was so small 😂. My Belgian grandfather married my Scottish grandmother and had my Canadian 1st generation dad who joined the airforce as a fighter mechanic for the korean war my uncles all served in ww2. My dad fell in love with my raven black haired Mi'kmaq mother who had me a first nations man with European influence 😂

Belgium the best little gentile art and culture loving intelligent Nation i get to know and love it so much. Groetjes van Antwerpen to all people on Earth.

@dirkrossey558

9 ай бұрын

Groeten terug van Sydney naar julie allemaal in Antwerpen...

Thank you for this interesting report. A country grows with its people, and I think Belgium is great because of all the wonderful, intelligent Belgian People.Take care everyone, I will come back and learn more from you when Corona allows it.

@Nebo8ful

3 жыл бұрын

Dont forget to taste our mighty collection of beer and of course our legendaries fries :D

@Thatguyy100

3 жыл бұрын

Very nice of you to say and you're always welcome. But boy I wish I could agree on all belgian people being intelligent.

Antwerp is only 20 minutes away from Brussels by helicopter. That's useful information for most travellers :-) ... Nice documentary.

@flitsertheo

2 жыл бұрын

Today, by car and by motorway, it's 30 minutes to an hour. If you are lucky. Let's not mention my record of 15 minutes, that was before they invented traffic cameras.

Best country in the world

@Redisia

3 жыл бұрын

As a northern neighbor that lives close the Belgium border. I must admit I love Belgium as much as the Netherlands :) Lovely people and on top of that lovely fries

Proud to be Belgian

@Countryballman4465

Жыл бұрын

Me too

i was born in Brussels Belgium in October 2001 and i love my hometown in Belgium

Sehr schöner Film, ich finde solche historischen Aufnahmen immer wieder faszinierend anzusehen, teilweise natürlich auch viel Propaganda dabei, aber diese ist doch sehr zurückhaltend und eine beeindruckende Bildqualität. 🇧🇪♥️

THANK YOU FOR SHARING HOW 🤔 VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT THE ATHANTIC BELGIUM ALLIES FORCES TOGETHER WITH UK VERY INTERESTING ALL THE ALLIES BELGIUM CONNECTION 🇧🇪

belguim is a crazy country in a good way i am belgiam my self ik hou van frieten j'aime les frites

Long live Belgium! 🇧🇪🕊️

Interesting

"the majority of the people speak the two languages", funny

@tmsupreme7763

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah only flemish isn't aa language, it's a dialect of dutch.

@timvanrijn8239

3 жыл бұрын

Those being the flemish. The walloon ussualy do not

@taxandria1941

3 жыл бұрын

I think more Flemings speak French while the most Walloons don't speak Dutch (Flemish)

@Taxents

3 жыл бұрын

@@taxandria1941 This is true

@matthings4133

2 жыл бұрын

@@taxandria1941 well it used to be both after the 1930s but now it isnt obligatory anymore in wallonia

Pretty sure that Hercule Poirot would have approved of this magnificent scenery.

@robertneven7563

2 ай бұрын

hahahahaha indeed Hecule

A wonderfull era

Lol @ groententuintjes op 10:04.

No mention of the Belgian-German minority!

🇳🇱♥️🇧🇪

🇬🇭🤝🇧🇪

if only our government was centralised again and people could set aside their ego for a second.

@juststop9379

3 жыл бұрын

That's not just your government THATS THE WORLD!

@pisceanboy13

3 жыл бұрын

No, federalism is better. This is Belgium, not France.

@blanco7726

2 жыл бұрын

Got the second part right, but needs to happen without centralisation

It is the Burgundian way of life

you forget the German language in Belgium

Interesting to learn about what knowledge they had on Belgium at the time. Not surprising that they don't mention the atrocities occurring in the Congo and to the Congolese people. I think we are still a long way off any of it being common knowledge. Even today it's being swept under the rug. I still love my country despite our dark past and present because I see the social change that is occurring and I hope it continues on and we acknowledge all the victims. I feel the same way about. this country of my ancestors. Belgium is a fascinating place. Thanks for sharing.

I speak East-Belgian very good, North-Belgian quite good, but hardly any South-Belgian.

Ah a pity about the brusselization period... such wonderful architecture lost

I expected the Congo. and it was.............. here

@juststop9379

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah They glanced over it as expected 👀

@blanco7726

2 жыл бұрын

@@juststop9379 doesn’t really influence Belgium

@j.langer5949

Жыл бұрын

what of it?