Leuven
Travel Blogs from Leuven, Belgium
Music Festival Werchter
One of the best place in Europe for Summer music festival, i must recommend Belgium (flemish and french part). Here is an overview of Werchter, where we got VIP tickets and listen to Sting, Roxy Music, Simply Reds, Simple Minds......Just ...
Provinciaal Park
WOW! This is the most amazing park I have been to. It is very reminiscent of Look Park in Northampton, MA, but much bigger and with the best play structures around. Zoe and Henry picked us up at about 3 and we smooshed into their car and drove ...
Brugge to Leuven
... by Saturday night, and we can go straight there, or we can look at other places first. First, Gary wants to stop in Leuven. There is an interesting town hall and church there. I think he mainly wants to show us a strange sculpture with ...
Happy Birthday Eliza!
Happy Birthday Eliza!! The sun was shining down on us today! Yeah. What a birthday treat for the birthday girl. We made panekoken for breakfast and stuffed them with jelly and/or nutella and bananas. Everyone loves that ...
Abdij van Park
Abigail and Eliza napped while Emma did email and played computer games (we often have to fight each other to see who gets on). When the girls woke we all played Uno and then I made dinner (chicken, onion, pepper & broccoli stir fry with rice). We ...
Dag 22 - Volvemos a casa
Naar huis, balen. Een laatste keer rijst met bonen als ontbijt, en afscheid nemen van onze Jimmy. Geen problemen daar, gelukkig maar want we vonden de verzekering te duur. We worden nog goed afgeript met 52$ 'vertrektaks'. Dat is dan één van de weinige ...
Rock Werchter
... being Cologne instead. The rest of the day was spent at the festival, which is just outside of Leuven , Belgium 's student capital. As such it is the ideal setting for a music festival; a few more scruffily dressed youngsters ...
Back to Leuven for my love, and her hometown
... had some really hard difficult time with the fact that we thought we would split and not continue further immediately when we arrived in Leuven. It was cold and wet, we were friend then and we spent the evening to resist each other even if I was such ...
Belgian Brief
... 15 minutes. A good way to spend the day and nothing tastes better than Stella Artois on a hot day in Leuven. This was a very brief four day trip to Belgium, however I've been here twice before and this time it was nice taking time for catching up and ...
Leaving my lovely Leuven quite forever!
The last days have been eclectic. Packing, walking in town for some of the last time lost in my thought and looking to acquire some new stuff as well as trying to sell the old ones. The Thursday has Gil come over for a talk and also packing what's ...
leuven
... feel a little sorry for them. We have now settled in at Craig's sister Alana and her Husband Marks place in Belgium, resting, relaxing and doing some washing before heading to Spain and Portugal. Craig's brother Shaun and his new wife Angela are ...
Rock On
... . I honestly recommend to anyone that if they’re going to Brussels, it’s worth making the side trip to Leuven. It’s a cool little university town with great bars and pretty buildings, plus there’s an awesome hostel to take ...
We Arrive
... on the other side. What an adventure! We took the train (which departs from the basement of the airport) to Leuven where Jonathan's friend Christian (who is sponsoring Jonathan's sabbatical at KU Leuven) met us. He transported us, and, more ...
First Day in Leuven
... wake Emma at 10:30. I went out for my first run and found the local playground Jonathan had scoped out. Then I ran down towards KU Leuven and past the entrance to our local castle (more like a palace but I think it will do). Still very tired and my legs ...
Around Town
... lazy morning except that we needed to get to the town hall to begin the process of registering ourselves as temporary citizens of Leuven. Hustled everyone out the door and went and had more passport pictures taken (that is about a total of 20 for ...
El retorno del Rey :)
jajaja... eso sono al senor de los anillos...jajaja bueno, ya en casa..despues de otro viaje de 10 horas y de pasar por estrasburgo, luxemburgo, y todo lo terminado en burgo...jajaja Llegue con hambre y los bolsillos limpios. En resumen, me gusto ...
Mechelen-Leuven-Paris... and back
... got 2 blonde leffe, 2 brown leffe, 2 duvel, 2 hoegaarden, 2 stella, 2 jupiler... later I will bring other brand. Stan brought me to Leuven, he needed to go to his class and now I'm in the train to Paris. The day is warm and wet, grey but it doesnt ...
Schnecken en Slak
... to Paula's house. She is the director of the lab Jonathan is associated with at KUL. They live about 20 minutes outside of Leuven in a very rural and very beautiful area. They have a lovely home, complete, to the kids excitement, with a swingset. ...
Belgium
... two hours but be proud of me cause I went out drinking that night and got sufficiently wasted off of "blue cat", aka 12% Belgium beer that Greg said tasted like molasses. Also raspberry and cherry beer, which were SO good. There's so many kinds in ...
Leuven
... si vybirala predmety na erasmus, samozrejme jsem take nejprve zamirila na stranky Leuvenske univerzity. Univerzity jsou dve. Katolicka univerzita Leuven a Katolicka univerzita Louvain La Neuve. Puvodne to byla jedna a taz, ale ta "moje" se odtrhla nekdy ...
First Monday in Leuven
We presented our projects in a very HOT room. HOT. Where is the snow? They told us to bring sweaters? HA! Its boiling here. I went out with the group that night and as we were leaving the owners accused our group of stealing the handle of their ...

