Country Info
- Brussels
- Capital
- Euro (EUR)
- Currency
- 10,258,762
- Population
- BE
- Country Code
Brussels Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Brussels, Belgium
Ouf!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Boring old Brussels...not!
This is a top pick! ... where 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 ...
Repeats
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Moving Along
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Belgium
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Rats With Wings
This is a top pick! ... ride through Europe (which is not nearly as romantic and quaint as popular culture would lead you to believe), I have arrived in Brussels. Thus far, I'm staying at a hostel that wouldn't be so bad, were I staying in the main building as opposed to ...
Would Anyone Care for Brussel Sprouts?
This is a top pick! ... head... followed by "always wear a turtle neck." They Lived Happily Ever After... And Five Pounds Heavier Historical Brussels is a beautiful city with architecture unlike anything I have seen in Europe. The ornately decorated building lined winding ...
My Marathon, Brussels and bird poo
... fully loaded with all my belongings! I had a quick look on google maps and headed off. It's well signposted and I reached Brussels within a couple of hours BUT I then must have spent another hour or so negotiating traffic, police blocks and trying to ...
HC meeting Brussels
... her and when she did she was quite surprised to see me. For her it was some of her first days back in Belgium to live in Brussels for now. In the meantime, Frank was welcoming the people in the nearest café. I got into great discussion the whole ...
All the way, back to my lovely
April 30 So I couldn't really contact anybody to let know that I was arrived in town. My first move was to go to Mathilde, as I had received not news whatsoever from Ingrid, I didn't know if she would host me. It was nice to see Mathilde, and also ...
Eurostar from Brussels via Lille
Arrived in Brussels Midi 20 mins late at 6.30am and had to collect tickets for 9.59 eurostar to London but as tickets fully flexible we had time to make the 7.05am one which was cool. You collect tickets at 'Rail Connections office' and you check in here ...
Bruksel
Avrupa'nin baskenti... Sanki burokrasi sehri zannedilebilir, ama bence cok eglenceli bir sehir. Hani sense of humour derler ya, iste o var bu sehirde. Kimle iletisim kursam ya espri oluyor, ya da birlikte guluyoruz. Belki cizgi romanin bu kadar cok ...
home
... in the rental car. Then we are checking in our luggage. We are taking off, flying over Miami, New York, to Brussels (Belgium). With a suitcase full of nice pictures and intensive memories of a lovely country with very friendly people! Bye bye ...
La Saint-Jean à Bruxelles
Ouf, voilà déjà plus d'un mois que je n'ai pas écrit ! Ce dernier mois était très tranquille avec Yannic qui étudiait pour ses examens finaux et moi qui m'habituais à mon nouvel emploi. Entre temps, nous devons aussi trouver le temps de ...
Back to BRU
... him to Germany where he could bring me to Frankfurt. After some thought I accepted and it was now time for me to leave to Brussels for the last night before leaving on Friday with him. I spent most of the morning sitting in the sun in the garden talking ...
Brussels
... that day and seeing some people in silly costumes reminded me a little bit of Fasching in Munich. We also happened to be in Brussels on the day their new Metro was opened so we were about as lost on the train as most of the locals! We headed ...
Making Friends
... the beautiful town of Louven and a companion for the ride to Brussels. Thank you Vicky and Elizabeth. Again asking directions in Brussels leading to new friendships, a costly night at the bar (I only had one beer, but I lost my wallet so it turned ...
Belgium = Beer, Chocolate and Frittes
... neighborhoods could be mistaken for Kinshasa and that is no exageration. Julius fit in as well as Sara, except for the fact that he wasn't speaking French. After Brussels and the big city life we took the train an hour away to Tourist Heaven, ...
Brussels: A Small City, with Big Mussels!!!
... them a little wheelchair aware. Not so really!! This was a hard city for us to get around. But we trudged on because Brussels has something that nobody else has. In fact it’s a very special person who has become Internationally famous. He has more ...
Lets go somewhere that's open
... having just arrived we were able to get some fresh water and what have you. We were planning on catching the Thalys to Brussels (it's a slightly more expensive high-speed train) except that there were no eurail seats available on it and we would have had ...
Chocolates and Beer...
... meet sooo many awesome people and you feel like you have known them forever. Travelled on the awesome Europe train system to Brussels - it took 1 and a half hours and cost 11 Euros!!! BARGAIN!!! After an awesome nights sleep in a HOTEL!!!! i ...
Brussels: Chocolate, Waffles, and Peeing Boys
... the planes waiting to take off. This was going to be a good trip. We had high expectations for what awaited us in Brussels. Belgium waffles…from BELGIUM?!?! Yes, please. Throw in some melt-in-your-mouth chocolate and you have ...
Crazy soldiers at Waterloo
So, when we went to Waterloo there were a bunch of people dressed up in classic French soldier uniforms with muskets having a battle with blanks amonongst themselves. It was quite entertaing to watch. They were part of a group that does that sort of ...
Brussels: Grime and Splendor
For all that Brugge was with its Medieval canals and cozy-quaint feeling, Brussels was the opposite with large boulevards with tons of cars, the immense European Quarter, large multinational headquarters and the huge Royal Palace. There was an interesting ...