Cambre Woods
Rolling wooded park with a lake, a boat-only island pavilion, and paths that recall a nineteenth-century English garden.
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This guide to Cambre Woods in Brussels centers on Chalet Robinson, a wooden pavilion built in 1877 on an island in the lake that has never had a bridge, reachable only by a skipper's boat. It traces the pavilion's heyday as the place to be seen, the fire that first damaged it in 1896, and the far worse blaze of 1991 that left only a blackened frame standing over the water. Nearby, listen for the story of British soldiers said to have played cricket here the day before Waterloo.
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