Discover Belgium & Luxembourg. Includes FREE planning and background information. Belgian chansonnier Jacques Brel famously referred to this part of Belgium as le plat pays – the flat country. He sang about his reluctant love for all that it stood for, and about its bleakness. Indeed, on cold winter days the scene here can be downright dismal. Winds howl across flat fields and whip through villages, wrapping around church steeples and belfries – monuments that have … More >>