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A Tall Man in a Low Land

I am just on page 20 but this appears to be the travel book I've been looking for on Belgium. I have always been a big fan of travel writing (as opposed to travel guides) like "A Year in Provence" and "Almost French" but it was hard to find one on Belgium. There is another Belgium travel book called the Great Sorrow of Belgium or something like that but it is about war. Tall Man is about a couple traveling through Belgium for fun. Here is an excerpt in which the hotelier (M. Bonfond) at Botte de Hainaut (in Wallonia) suggests a place to eat lunch: "I would like to make the following proposal for your consideration: we have this place" - he indicated to a point on the map he had begun unfolding and then refolding into a neat and relevant square a few minutes before - "a restaurant of great charm and good quality, yet with reasonable prices. The walk to this restaurant is through woodlands and small valleys of simple attractiveness and"...