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Our second day of sightseeing with the Sarah and the kids was to go to Liege, Belgium. Sarah and Tim live in the very south of the Netherlands, at a crossroads between Germany and Belgium. It takes about 30 minutes by train to reach either country.
We had heard that Liege would be a good destination for sightseeing and so set out early, kids in tow. When we arrived we were in awe of the strikingly modern architecture of the train station. It turned out that this was the best part of Liege:)
Liege was disappointing and surprisingly downtrodden. Apparently it is a city that has been 'under revitalization and renovation' for over a decade. We got a tourist map and set out to find the typical 'historic (glossy touristy) core that every other European city seems to have...we never really found it. We walked through a park, which on a map showed beautiful fountains and playgrounds...in reality, it had a muddy, swampy pond, some graffiti'd statues, and large diggers completing the 'renovation'. There were many jokes going around that it was the 'Detroit of Belgium' and 'worse than Naples'. We decided to seek out the things any desperate tourists to Belgium are looking for....beer, waffles, and fries. In the end, we found beer and called it a day:)
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