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Belgium Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Antwerp, Belgium, Belgium
Weekend trip to Antwerp
This is a top pick! ... , and 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! Hi all, We took a quick trip the last weekend of June, starting on Friday evening with the Beer Passion weekend in Antwerp, Belgium, followed by a drive to the Normandy coast in France Saturday - Monday. It was a lot of driving in a short time (8 hours ...
Antwerp and Brussels, Beligum
This is a top pick! Day 67 - Jens 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 ...
Twerp in Antwerp
This is a top pick! In Antwerp Gill stocked up on their lovely chocolates and I took the opportunity to ring the office - did they still remember me? Had they appointed a new branch manager? Anyway, I was still thinking of the call and Gill was guzzling the chocks when ...
Mondayitis
This is a top pick! It's Monday. Nothing is open on Monday. Not one museum or art gallery or garden. Had we known this we would have done more yesterday. The BOSS had picked up a brachure about a very interesting outdoor sculpture park on 11 hectares of botanic gardens and ...
Heading south
This is a top pick! ... did what any rational tourist would do when faced with such inane opposition - we bought a ticket to Belgium and said goodbye to the Netherlands. We arrived in Antwerp at 1pm and planned our next move. We had accommodation so we needed a map and an ...
Night out on the town
This is a top pick! ... folks, I'll bring up a friend FOR SURE so we can go exploring Antwerp together. I definitely enjoy Antwerp more than downtown Brussels. One neat thing about Belgium that probably most of you didn't know is that you can see Belgium from outer space, ...
Visit to Antwerp
This is a top pick! Day two in Belgium begins. More like my first real day since Monday didn't really count with all the jetlag I went through. So it's Tuesday at 9PM. I'll probably send this entry off tomorrow morning when I get up. I have found that the easiest thing ...
Who Am I
This is a top pick! Antwerp or Antwerpen, if you are a Flemish person. It was quite amazing that we had never been to this part of Belgium, so we jumped into our car and headed off. Yes, a car. The Chookmobile, which had been a big part of our life, was now gone. We had a ...
Talk to the hand...its over there...
This is a top pick! ... 250mL glass of the regular pilsner or lager. Most places have Maes, Primus or Jupiler and it was in Antwerp that I saw Stella Artois for the first time in Belgium. I think that it is more of a Walonia (southern province of Belgium) drink, simply because ...
The Beauty Of Belgium
Entry to follow (I AM kind of travelling here, you know?). Thanks for your patience. Check back ...
Museums in Antwerp
... past the groen square with a big church, and to the fashion museum. Now I should probably mention an awesome thing in Antwerp – anyone under 26 gets entry into almost every museum for 1 euro (compared to the 5-10 euro everyone else has to ...
Moving out and Kulminating
One of the most exhausting days ever! As usual, did not plan too well and was just go-go-go non-stop to move out of my apartment, renting the truck and driving stuff everywhere. Bruno and Maarten helped heaps. Apartment was not quite ready ...
The Belgian Discotek
I had so much fun in belgium. met up with Chloe and her friend Michael and saw the city, had different beers and pancakes and a crazy unique waffle and chips with their special mayonaise. not all at once. at night we went out to a restaurant around 10, ...
What are we doing in Antwerp?
... from the Bay Area, all of whom agreed with us that they had absolutely no idea why they were in Antwerp. As for us, we ended up in Belgium because the train trip from Amsterdam to Bayeux seemed like too much to bear. We took the train from Amsterdam ...
Our journey to Paris - Stage Two
Antwerp was the second stop. Jaz and Matt were snoozing by then. The countryside was lovely - lots of flat rolling fields - very picturesque and ...
c'mon keep on moving...
... i am very grateful they offer free wifi at all, its just a new experience thus i am writing about it. overall Belgium is very beautiful and has a great feel to it, its a shame its so cold and It is difficult for me to fully ...
Antwerp evil party
... brought us all the way to downtown Antwerp where we met with Sofie who had asked Dylan tips for buying a digital camera. I accompany him to Antwerp, it was fine for me and I had no idea what to do anyway. By the evening she also had a farewell party ...
Day trip to Antwerp
... security and police officers everywhere so we stopped to ask what the fuss was all about. Turns out that the Prince of Belgium (Philippe) was bound to arrive by train shortly (within 30 mins) for the inauguration of the unveiling of the new section ...
In the Land of Chocolate & Diamonds
... managed to find a nice dress to take home that isn't costing me an arm and a leg. Then we went to the Diamond Museum. Antwerp is the diamond capital of the world and has the biggest diamond museum in the world also. After a day of shopping and chocolate, ...
I would like to live in Antwerp
... . It is metropolitan, cultural, tourist-friendly, and beautiful, all at the same time. I really felt like if I ever lived in Europe, Antwerp would be a great choice. It's so beautiful but just seems really livable too, and the rest of Europe is so easily ...
Smells and other things
Just a quick update today as breakfast isn't too far away. Today we leave the Netherlands and head into Begium to Antwerp...a shorter day on the bike as we will get the guided tour around the streets. One of the guides is an expert on historical ...
Last dots on the i's
In 11 days our trip will start. So it is time to collect adresses and phonenumbers etc. This wil be more or less our trip for the first 10 days : http://maps.google.be/maps?f=d&hl=nl&geocode=&saddr=Las+Vega ...
Antwerpen
This past weekend I went back to Belgium, this time to Antwerp. I had read reviews regarding Antwerp and it seem that a lot of people enjoy it more than Brussels - so we gave it a shot. Antwerp has a bigger city feel to it than Brussels. ...
Belgium waffles and such
... 8221; Other local men walked in and they were greeted by name and handed drinks without ordering. They speak Flemish in this part of Belgium which is a language that sounds Viking-esk. So Lilly finished up and we were about to head out, then one of the ...
Erwin did it like this.
... the shop and even steal the recipe. It’s like Willy Wonka with bakery goods. From here we make our way down to Antwerp’s Botanical Garden. Mentioned on the day of my arrival, this is another of Erwin’s favourite places to sit and relax ...
Who Knew Pirates Liked Black Sabbath?
... , he has been a Captain for upwards of 30 years. He showed me passport(s), each filled with upwards of a hundred stamps- Antwerp, Capetown, Shanghi, Singapore, Long Beach, Dubai Sydney. Why is such a man in a gothic metal bar in Antwerp? ...
Antwerp Belgium; bring on the chocolates!!!!
... are on our way to Holland. As we are on holiday we don't want to drive to much. So we are doing a pittstop in Antwerp in Belgium. There is a special market on Sunday mornings, so our timing is impeccable. We walked around the town for a while and Lis and ...