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Belgium Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Belgium
Ooh, cold rain...with wind!
This is a top pick! Only a 22 mile ride into Lille, France from Ypres, Belgium, but that was quite the miserable, cold, wet, windy ride. I found out that Gore-Tex is not completely waterproof, especially my gore-tex gloves :( Absolutely freezing by the time I found a hotel ...
Brussels for a day
This is a top pick! Hi everybody, Melanie has been traveling a lot for work this year and during this week she went to Brussels for 2 days of meetings and was lucky when Chris decided to take the train down and join her. We've been to Brussels many times, but always ...
All over Belgium
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
About my charity project -100 Girls Back to School
This is a top pick! 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, ...
On Bruges
This is a top pick! ... bridges and old buildings and such, well, it’s pretty much a fucking fairy tale. Oh and by the way, it’s in Belgium. Yeah, I know, we thought that was weird, too. Our version of some of the film's best scenes: Climbing the Belfort 366 ...
September 11 in Europe this year
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Midweek Belgium and a few days Holland
This is a top pick! ... in the car and head out to do some groceries as we need supplies for our stay at the Sunparks Kempervennen in Vlaanderen, Belgium. After groceries we head to my father's place to get some administrative things sorted out for my Visas for Russia, China ...
Return to Ghent
This is a top pick! 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, ...
February Happenings
This is a top pick! ... boat! 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 ...
Belgium
This is a top pick! 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! ...
Yet more old friends, haunts and children
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Q&A (or all you questions answered before I go)
This is a top pick! 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)
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Castles and crossing the Ardennes
This is a top pick! ... , 7000 feet of climbing when never getting above 1400 feet is quite a workout. After a rest day, I passed through Luxembourg to Belgium, stopping near Bastogne. The memorial there is a large star-like structure, with the US states named on the face of the ...
From Brugge to Haarlem
This is a top pick! Ellen said she wanted to visit civilized Western Europe for a change. Clean toilets for a change is what she really meant. I'd have been content to see the Diamondbacks new stadium in Phoenix. But after seeing the movie "In Bruges" I relented. "In ...
Belgian Windsprint
This is a top pick! ... down the Chocolate Museum. At €4, the place is a ripoff. I never thought I'd be disappointed by something chocolate-related in Belgium, but the Museum shook my confidence in everything I can believe to be good in this world. It was while I was in ...
Weekend trip to Antwerp
This is a top pick! ... a 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. ...
Normandy Weekend (+ a little more Belgian beer!)
This is a top pick! ... grateful 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 ...
Belgian Weekend
This is a top pick! ... 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; ...
One day in Brussels
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Mussels in Brussels
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Day 1
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Romantic Brugge
This is a top pick! ... her husband 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 ...
Good news for bent carrots
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Le pays de la biere - gone commercial.
This is a top pick! (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 ...
Home for (my) Valentine
This is a top pick! A very special side trip on my journey were these three weeks I spend in Belgium with Nele and my family. Holding my godchild for the first time, eating enormous amounts of the great food from back home and meanly just being together with the one I love, ...