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Belgium
Mar 16, 2008 (91 photos)

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Aug 11, 2007

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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)

... 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 finally ...

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 exclusive ...

Brussels, Belgium
Oct 11, 2007 (16 photos)

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 ...

Belgian Weekend
May 4, 2004 (8 photos)

... 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 the ...

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 as ...

Mussels in Brussels
Feb 4, 2005 (7 photos)

... . 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) ...

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

... 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 day ...

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)

... 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 cabbage, ...

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

... 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 the ...

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 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 beer. ...

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 ...

Brussels
May 12, 2008 (8 photos)

... much smaller, more quiet, and does not feel as prosperous as London (at least in the centre) did. Overall, Brussels feels patchy. A few blocks away from beautiful postcard-type medieval and 17th century buildings, one can find derelict ...

Belgian Beer Weekend
Sep 2, 2007 (23 photos)

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 ...

Ouf!
Jun 13, 2007

La temperature ici est pour le moins "moyenne". Hier comme c etait plutot maussade je suis alle visite le musee des beaux arts royal de Bruxelles! J etais accompagne d une dame qui voyage seule et qui parle a peine anglais. J ai pris plusieurs photos mais ...

Jun 26, 2009 (4 photos)

Beers with Jono.
Nov 3, 1998

... 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 ...

Brussels
Aug 9, 2006

... , 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
Mar 12, 2007 (35 photos)

... 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 the ...

Boy pissing
Sep 29, 1999 (7 photos)

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 ...

La Grand Place
Aug 2, 2008 (3 photos)

Grote Markt, or La Grand Place, in Brussels is a cool place. It's guild houses are very ornate and a sight to see. It's a fun gathering place. There are several cafes in the square, and we had fun taking a break and drinking some beer (I had raspberry ...

Mussels in Brussels
Dec 16, 2007 (116 photos)

... 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 ...

Boring old Brussels...not!
May 28, 2006 (4 photos)

... it inflicts you with this fear of helping people or speaking to someone in any language, but French. Brussels is supposedly the biligual capital of Belgium, although I never heard anyone speak in Flemish or German and no one would even contemplate speaking ...

Repeats
Aug 9, 2008 (4 photos)

... How can you do that and not be ripped entirely out of the world of the movie? Guh.   Afterward we headed back to Brussels and I got to try frites w/ mayonnaise. They were just as I'd expected, really. We did a little window shopping and that was it. ...

Moving Along
Aug 7, 2008 (13 photos)

... it is! I'm excited for him to show me the good chocolate places to go to. I spent the day wandering around Brussels. I managed to stumbled into the Grand Place, a gorgeous square surrounded by lavish building with statues and gilded decoration. I took a ...

Belgium
Aug 8, 2008

Yesterday I met up with Bart, a friend I've known through LJ for a few years now.We wandered around Brussels and he brought me to a chocolate shop, where I bought a couple things to try out, including chocolate with violets in it. It was subtle, but quite ...