Article: Ostend doing well.(EUROPE)(Ostend-Bruges International)(Brief Article)

Article: Ostend expands cargo facilities.(news)(Brief Article)
Airports International;  November 1, 2003 ;     463 words ...Ostend-Bruges International has inaugurated Aerofresh, a new Perishable Centre, in a joint initiative between airport operator Flemish Regional Authorities ...

Article: `The Queen of the Beaches'.(Ostend)
History Today;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Ostend the British, from the 1890s to the 1930s ... France and what became Belgium in 1830. Ostend was one of the most important European resorts ... expertise were present from the beginning of Ostend's transformation from garrison town and ...

Article: You don't have to be mad to be Belgian - but it helps This year, ...
The Independent - London;  April 11, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... his death, the painter's hometown, Ostend, is hosting "Ensor Year" - a series ... intriguingly titled Dead Rat Ball. Granted, Ostend is not one of Belgium's major Flemish ... aesthete's beaten track - in shabby Ostend. This Belgian port town, smack in the ...

Article: Travel Europe: First resort for the famous This summer, ...
The Independent - London;  June 5, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... of it," wrote one British visitor to Ostend in 1793. The English who flocked to this ... travellers are equally reluctant to linger in Ostend, eschewing the unknown pleasures of the ... Ghent or Brussels. But there's more to Ostend than tourists think. This year marks ...

Article: Ostend Manifesto
Dictionary of American History;      508 words ...OSTEND MANIFESTO OSTEND MANIFESTO. Southern desires to expand slave territory led to this ... place to discuss further U.S. attempts to acquire Cuba. They met in Ostend, Belgium, and crafted the so-called Ostend Manifesto. It said ...

Article: Ostend and Bruges; live it! holiday hotspots.(Features)
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  August 16, 2008 ;     411 words ...Ostend & Bruges Christmas Markets, December ... short break based in the seaside resort of Ostend where the annual Winterijs - Christmas market ... The second day is spent at leisure in Ostend to explore the Christmas Market, situated ...

Article: The Arts: An odd man in Ostend James Ensor was a merciless ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 31, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... born", he informed the world, "at Ostend, on April 13, 1860, on a Friday, the ... background, met his mother on holiday at Ostend. His mother was the daughter of a Flemish ... which he loathed, and on his return to Ostend in 1880 set up a studio in the attic of ...