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Belgian bluebells are too beautiful to see during pandemic
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HALLE – When nature is at its brightest this year, it needs to be hidden from sight. Parks and woods in Belgium, like in much of Europe, are a riot of color and scents in springtime, many so magnificent they would draw far too thick a crowd in the times of a pandemic.
So some are closed, or parking areas are off limits and non-locals are banned from visiting. Many tourists are sent back and some are even fined if they won’t take no for an answer.
The extraordinary measures are felt deeply as bluebells are in bloom in the Hallerbos forest, some 15 kilometers (10 miles) south of Brussels.
In a good year, up to 100,000 tourists come to gaze in wonder at its vast purple carpet under the beech trees. “This pains the heart badly,” Halle mayor
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