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belgian coast: Middelkerke: attractions
History of the Belgian seaside tourism
the old post-office in Middelkerke
Joseph Casselaan 1, 8430 Middelkerke, 059/30 03 68
The history of the Flemish coast and of seaside tourism is very colourful.
Anyone who delves deep enough into the recesses of his memory is bound to unearth a recollection of some beach holiday or other: ponies and donkeys trudging over hard sand with cooing toddlers on their backs, colourful crepe paper flowers for sale in exchange for two handfuls of shells, spuming waves which try to knock you over… Those memories are fuelled by the many snapshots which are kept in that yellowed album or in that old shoe box of granny’s. That ‘holiday by the sea’ is stored in our collective memory.
The brand-new "Kusthistories" museum in Middelkerke explains the whole story: from the coastal tram to the male swimsuit, or from the go-cart to the ‘choco-glacé’... State-of-the-art museum techniques and presentations will get you dreaming of times past.
You Tube: vacation at the Belgian seaside 1936 - 1940
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