| Stefan made me realise for the first time what witty and professional writers Flanders and Swann were. |
| Inland, most of the rivers run across the flat, fertile Flanders Plain, north-eastward to The Netherlands. |
| The day's two earlier races had made these boggy Flanders fields even more of a quagmire by the time of the main event. |
| Between 1621 and 1623, three new armadas were established in Flanders, Galicia and Gibraltar to support those in Cadiz and Lisbon. |
| Flanders may no longer be Europe's main gate, but it remains a busy portal with a muscular economic hinterland. |
| Instead, I chose a collection of 300 World War I letters written from the trenches, tents and field hospitals of Flanders. |
