TRAVEL TO
BELGIUM

Capital:Brussels

Pop: 9,925,000

Languages:
French,Flemish
and German

Currency:Franc

Other main
towns:Antwerp
Liege,Bruges.

National Airline:
Sabena

Major airport:
Brussels

Main ports:
Zeebrugge,Ostend

From the UK:
By Air with BA
from Heathrow
to Brussels and
also Sabena.
Also check many
provincial deps.
Very regular
services made
more important
by EEC connection
of Brussels.

By sea:
North Sea Ferries
Hull to Zeebrugge
- daily sailing.
Sealink to Ostend
daily sailing.

Passport:UK Visitors
passport is ok.
No visa required by
UK citizens.

Main UK tour
companies:
Cosmos,Belgium Travel
Service,North Sea
Ferries(Inclusive
tours),Leger Travel,
Wallace Arnold/many
local coach operators
often feature Belgium
for special trips.


Travel to Belgium is
often transit travel
wether going through
the country as part of
a coach tour or as
part of a motoring
holiday.Brussels makes
a good city break all
year but otherwise
Summer is the best time
to visit.Ostend and the
coast - Blankenberg etc
are good traditional
seaside towns and were
one of the first places
visited by the UK
mass package market as
far back as the 1930s.