Belgium Travel Blogs

Belgium
Mar 16, 2008 (91 photos)

Belgium.

Map Update
Aug 11, 2007

Brussels pin

All over Belgium
Sep 29, 2003 (57 photos)

... and set off to explore some of downtown Brussels, wandering in and around the Grand Place. In mid-afternoon the Belgium Brewers Guild, 'Chevalerie du Fourquet des Brasseurs', held a ceremony to induct new members into the Guild, including the ...

September 11 in Europe this year
Sep 23, 2003 (6 photos)

... of what was going on back home to mark the day and we were feeling very removed. So riding into a small town in Belgium and seeing our flag hanging (probably 5-6 of them!) was very special. Near Aubel is the World War II Henri-Chapelle American ...

Brugges Pin
Aug 28, 2007

Brugges Pin

Return to Ghent
Jul 30, 2007 (11 photos)

Hi everybody, We haven't been traveling very much this summer and decided to take a long weekend in Ghent, Belgium. We've written about Ghent before (aka Gent)- it's one of our favorite places close to Amsterdam.  It's normally about a 2 hour drive, but ...

February Happenings
Feb 28, 2004 (6 photos)

... MAASTRICHT DAYS Maastricht is an interesting city because it is in the tail of the Netherlands sandwiched between Germany and Belgium. It has been an important city since Roman times because it has always been at a natural N-S/E-W crossroads between ...

About my charity project -100 Girls Back to School
Sep 3, 2007

I'm about to start my trip through Tibet, Nepal, India, China, South East Asia, Australasia, South America, and East Africa. It will be amazing, it will be exhausting, it will be inspiring and it will be for the most parts cheap. It will be cheap, ...

Belgian Windsprint
Sep 21, 2006 (14 photos)

... 'If you visit Brussels and don't set aside some time to gaze upon the Mannekin-Pis, you might as well come to Belgium as a Mormon with a chocolate allergy. And get there early when you can enjoy it in contemplative peace before the throngs of peace-signing ...

Weekend trip to Antwerp
Jan 18, 2004 (11 photos)

... new boat! We'll try to keep it short enough to be interesting. If you get bored, just jump ahead! ANTWERP, BELGIUM Our American friends, Stephan and Julie, had this idea to take short weekend trips to the towns bordering the Netherlands. Basically, ...

Le pays de la biere - gone commercial.
Jun 12, 2007 (6 photos)

(C) THOUGHT OF THE DAY - Exclusive beer distributors are from hell. I just got a couple of rants about this trip to Brussels.  It seems they no longer serve Westmalle beer on the Grand'Place -- APPARENTLY because it is not carried by some ...

Brussels, Belgium
Oct 11, 2007 (16 photos)

... I've gained much here culturally. Belgium could've easily been about Manneken Pis and Waffles like most tourists, but for me, Belgium is a special place with exceptional people. I hope I gave them different views of the American people and I think that's ...

Normandy Weekend (+ a little more Belgian beer!)
Jun 28, 2004 (15 photos)

... for the direction. What a really, truly nice guy. NORMANDY D-DAY SIGHTS After spending more time than anticipated in Belgium, we finally arrived in Normandy at 6:30 Saturday night. Luckily we had made reservations at an old chateau which (even more ...

Belgian Weekend
May 4, 2004 (8 photos)

... of the weekend before returning to Amsterdam. WILD YEAST Since 1900, Cantillon has been brewing a beer that is particular to Belgium called lambic. It is brewed using wild yeast that naturally occurs there. No yeast is directly added to the beer; ...

Belgium
Oct 22, 2006

OK so I'm adding this late and am not sure exactly of the date BUT I had to put Belgium on our map! BTW the chocolate was great! Julia

Yet more old friends, haunts and children
Jun 17, 2007 (2 photos)

Dave's parents kindly dropped us off at our next stop - just south of Brussels with Robert (Dave worked with him in Brussels), Hannah, Sofie (3ish) and newborn Thomas.  They have built their own house which is great.  Spend a few days chilling ...

Mussels in Brussels
Feb 4, 2005 (7 photos)

Hi everybody! Our friend, LeeAnne, was back in Amsterdam again for work, so we decided to take an overnight trip to Brussels. Chris picked us up at work Friday at 5:00 and we were on the road. By 7:30 we were in Brussels eating mussels at Leon's - a ...

Q&A (or all you questions answered before I go)
Sep 2, 2007

Hello people,   I've been asked each of the following questions so many times, I thought it would be easier to answer them once and for all.   Q. Long time no talk. How have you been? A. I've been great. I quit my job last month and going ...

My itinerary (Oct 2007 - Oct 2008)
Sep 3, 2007

Please, be invited to join at any point as long as you can tolerate cheap hotels, cold showers and 4 am rides on the chicken bus:   Tibet     -  Oct, 2007 Nepal   -   Nov, 2007 India  & ...

Good news for bent carrots
Nov 13, 2008 (3 photos)

Today I harvested a dozen or so carrots, put in the ground earlier this year. Some grew well, others didn't make much progress, or were found to be eaten by some kind of worm. None of my carrots were straight. Or even symmetrical. While they didn ...

Antwerp and Brussels, Beligum
May 5, 2008 (33 photos)

... left very early this morning, we followed suit at around 10am. The train to Antwerp was relatively short. The Netherlands or Belgium don't have high speed trains inside the country because it's so small that fast trains don't make much sense. Instead all ...

One day in Brussels
Jan 8, 2008 (2 photos)

... took a picture. The main square is very impressive, with elaborately decorated buildings all around. Just around the corner is a chocolate museum. Belgium claims to have invented chocolate as we know it today and this museum was one that I did not have to ...

Day 1
Sep 15, 2006 (3 photos)

... see had some pretty tidy accommodation. I had a three berth cabin to myself which I was grateful for because it was gone midnight and I wanted some shut-eye. I read a few more pages of my book and tried to get to sleep as the train rumbled through Belgium.

Euro-Star (not me, the train)
Apr 30, 2005 (8 photos)

A long weekend and a visitor (hi Rumi) from Overseas, so what to do? Found a super budget fare that included a trip on the eurostar (another thing to tick off on my list) and a weekend in Brussels. Cobus, Natasha, Rumi, Adrian and I headed over to the ...

Mmm. Chocolate
Aug 13, 2004 (3 photos)

Coming to a strange conclusion that we could be Tour Managers Extraordinaire, Tracey and I signed up for a training weekend with a London based tour company. They do budget day trips in the UK and weekend trips to Europe. Nicely our training weekend was ...

Romantic Brugge
Sep 3, 2008 (41 photos)

... who is an architectural engineer and his funky design comes across in all aspects of the house. The delicious Belgium breakfast included a huge breadbasket with a variety of Belgium bread. Brugge was a sensorial overload and a gastronomic delight!

La pluie de Bruges
Jun 14, 2007

Je pensais m ennuyer pour ma derniere journee a Bruxelles mais ce fut tout le contraire. Apres avoir passe quelques minutes a me faire bronzer au soleil de la Grand Place (on dit que c est la plus belle "place centrale" du monde!) Je suis alle boire une ...

Back home!
Apr 19, 2007

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Belgique
Jun 11, 2007 (6 photos)

Allo!! Je suis a Bruxelles, tout s est bien deroule jusqu ici, aucun probleme majeur. En arrivant j etais le premier dans mon dortoir et j ai realise a quel point il va falloir que je sois sociable! En effet, me promener dans les rues tout seul, ca ...

beer, waffles and chocolate
Jan 2, 2006

... and beer drinking in the town square, lots of old buildings. Very strange not knowing a word of Flemish..... suddenly we were in Belgium. Stayed in a lovely place run by a sweet young couple. Put on a fabulous breakfast set us up for the day. Had a good ...