Brussels
Travel Blogs from Brussels, Belgium
Brussels for a day
... especially refreshing. On Friday, Chris visited a museum, visited a nice park and had fries at "the best" fry stand in Brussels while Melanie spent the day in meetings. After a really nice dinner at Poivre & Sel, a small Italian ...
About my charity project -100 Girls Back to School
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, ...
All over Belgium
... in Brussels....but the statue certainly is a popular site there. And some how he seemed very fitting on a beer weekend in Brussels. WATERLOO AND BRUGGE After enduring the 2 hour non-tour tour and getting lost again on our way out of Brussels ...
Le pays de la biere - gone commercial.
(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 ...
Yet more old friends, haunts and children
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)
... a job and a mortgage. I have one year to contemplate. Q. When are you leaving? A. I already kind of left. I'm in Brussels now for a few days, then back to Bulgaria for couple of weeks, off to Israel for couple of weeks, back to London for a ...
My itinerary (Oct 2007 - Oct 2008)
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 ...
Belgian Windsprint
... at 9, the first thing I saw, while waiting to buy a Metro ticket, was some guy getting his luggage robbed. Hooray Brussels. I have a feeling this blog isn't going to make it into the next Belgian tourism brochure. After getting significantly lost, I ...
Euro-Star (not me, the train)
... 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 sunny capital where we partook in the local samples of chocolate and ...
Belgian Weekend
... was handing out tourist information and, sometimes, other goodies. We were told that there were festivals and celebrations all over Brussels. It was a very exciting day for Brussels and also for the people of the joining countries, some of them from ...
One day in Brussels
... along the way passing something called - Maneken Pis - statue in the wall of a small boy peeing. Apparently this is a Brussels landmark, so we took a picture. The main square is very impressive, with elaborately decorated buildings all around. Just around ...
Mussels in Brussels
... . It was the beginning of a relaxing weekend of walking, talking, eating, and shopping. On Saturday we walked all over Brussels. We found several outdoor markets including a huge flea market, a crafts market, and a market with gorgeous (expensive) ...
Day 1
... 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 ...
Good news for bent carrots
... commission spokesman said. The rules are to be scrapped for apricots, artichokes, asparagus, aubergines, avocados, beans, Brussels sprouts, carrots, cauliflowers, cherries, courgettes, cucumbers, cultivated mushrooms, garlic, hazelnuts in shell, headed ...
Brussels, Belgium
12:00AM - I hoped on the bus at midnight to go to Dublin airport. I got to the airport by 3:30am and my flight to Brussels, Belgium wasn't til 6:30am. Trying to sleep for few hours, I discovered how difficult it is to sleep at the airport. I guess it's ...
Brussels Flower Carpet and Belgian beer crawl
... only look at a carpet of flowers for so long, no matter how pretty it is. Knowing this, Rich had planned a Brussels Beer Crawl, including breweries and restaurants that serve beers that are difficult to find even in Brussels. We started at ...
Brussels
... visiting: yummy Belgian fries, good waffles, very good beer and even better chocolate! Another surprising aspect of Brussels is the diversity of its inhabitants. Walking its streets, one can hear almost every European language, ...
Belgian Beer Weekend
Brussels Beer Weekend Every year, on the first weekend in September, there is a beer paradise weekend in Brussels, Belgium. We went the first year we were here (see Sept 29, 2003 entry) and repeated it again this year. Of course the beer weekend is ...
Belgium - Beer and Chocolates galore
... !), saw Michaelangelo's statue of Madonna and Child and enjoyed a free musical performance one rather chilly evening. Belgium was a little 'rougher' than the other European cities we have visited with social problems more evident and infrastructure ...
Brussels
... , I take the new methods over the old. And I ate some chocolate. And a waffle. Which pretty much wraps up all that is Brussels. Except french fried... never got around to it, but they're supposed to be good. Oh, one more thing... a lot of chocolate ...
heading north
... (now living in Arizona) and another guy on the last day who was living in Port Alberni. Ended up seeing a lot of Brussels, including some unique quirks. I mean, who doesn't love a little boy peeing? Nobody. I was shown ...
Boy pissing
Caught the bus, which seemed to stop every 5 minutes and finally arrived I Brussels. I had a little trouble finding a hostel at first but eventually managed to get a bed in a centrally located hostel. After settling in, I went for a walk into the very ...
Beers with Jono.
... we went and found the pub. After a few pints we crashed at Jono's. He went to work, and we did the sightseeing thing. Normally, Brussels can be seen in a day. It took us five as every night we were on the beers with him and another Aussie by the name of ...
Mussels in Brussels
... we had our map book from 1998, but trust me, getting to Brussels is easy, I've just become lazy around the cities. Brussels It doesn't take long to get onto the ring road of Brussels, but it was much harder finding our hostel. Loads of ...
Belgique
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 ...
Arrival in Europe
... For those that don't know, TGV means Train a Grande Vitesse, these high speed trains run at a max of 300KM/h connecting Paris to Brussels and vice versa. It was 830 and my TGV connection wasn't arriving until 10:46AM, so I still had some time to get ...
La Grand Place
"The Central Courtyard of the Continent's Capital" Grote Markt, or La Grand Place, in Brussels is a cool place. It's made up of guild houses that are very ornate and a sight to see. It's a fun gathering place. There are several cafes in the square, and ...

