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Piste off with the Alps? No longer enamoured with Aspen? Why not consider a ski-ing holiday in Belgium? We find out more.Winter sports are surprisingly popular in Belgium
It may seem strange in a land regularly referred to as 'the flat country' but Belgium actually has quite a few ski resorts.
True, the country's modest collection of downhill and cross-country runs could never match the grandeur, glamour and excitement of world-famous pistes like those in the Alps or the Rocky mountains.
But to be fair to them, they never try to, and winter sports lovers say that's precisely the charm of Belgium's little-known ski resorts.
And it’s a recipe that seems to have served Belgium's small but surprisingly resilient winter sports industry well.
For while the country's resorts may not be a Mecca for the fit, tanned, luminous-lipstick-wearing members of the international ski set, they have developed a loyal and surprisingly large domestic audience.
"On popular days all of the pairs of skis are hired out before the end of the morning…so beware," warns one Belgian website that vaunts the virtues of the country's ski-runs.
Where to go
So where precisely are all of these Belgian Klosters, Aspens and Courchevals?
Not in Flanders is the short answer, at least if you're looking for open-air fun on real mountains, or to be more precise biggish hills.
Flanders is a great place and Expatica certainly doesn't want to get dragged into the interminable squabbling between Belgium's two biggest linguistic communities.
But the fact is this is just a simple question of geography.
All of the really seriously bumpy bits of Belgium are in Wallonia.
Belgium has downhill and cross-country runs
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