Ostend

Ostend is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders.

Ostend in Ruled Britannia
In the winter of 1598, Lope de Vega purchased passage to Ostend from captain Will Adams aboard his ship, the Oom Karl. De Vega had just been released from a makeshift prisoner-of-war camp in the Southwark bear-bating arena with the help of William Shakespeare and purchased his passage with part of a pound of gold Shakespeare had anonymously given him.