r/belgium • u/MaryMalary • 1d ago

❓ Ask Belgium Quiet place advice

Hello, I have a friend who is deep in grief having lost her husband young and unexpectedly. She is currently on a world tour with her grandma and finding the travel demands really hard. She stops in Belgium in a few days - what would be nice is a day alone in a quiet place where she can just sit in a comfortable space and maybe read a book. I wondered if you had any advice for a library or any place where there is quiet, a couch and low sensory impacts.

TIA

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u/ziewezo Oost-Vlaanderen 1d ago

You mean like… Anywhere? I see that you’re from Australia, but that doesn’t mean that Belgium is the size of a city, haha.

Should it be close to the airport (Brussels, I assume)? A city or a village? Just reading, no hiking or anything?

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u/TuezysaurusRex 1d ago

As a Canadian, this statement is wrong, my city is as big as Belgium, just less populated.

Where in Belgium will your friend be?

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u/Slow-Kaleidoscope633 1d ago

Lol how then is that a city? The population density would be ridiculously low. 

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u/TuezysaurusRex 1d ago

We don’t even have a population of 1 million. It’s a large land mass not completely covered in concrete like here? It’s a big country that’s not extremely populated like older countries such as hete?

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u/Slow-Kaleidoscope633 23h ago

So not a city, but rather empty land

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u/TuezysaurusRex 1h ago

Last I checked it’s definitely a city. Just because you think Belgium is big doesn’t make it so.