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Brussels Slideshow
Brussels
Travel Blogs from Brussels, Belgium
Brussels
Thursday: this morning we got to meet with a EU Commissioner for a short meeting. Brussels is a huge EU center, containing offices for the Commission, Council, and other smaller offices. The meeting was quite interesting; especially since this ...
A Voyage To The Continent......
... time to reach the Hotel (which is only about a five minute walk downhill from the station). When I was exiting Brussels Central station, a seedy looking individual walked up behind me holding his nose, as if to imply there was something producing ...
Mussels in Brussels
... We nodded politely and chalked it up to Belgian pride, thinking, "Sure, 'capital' of Europe." We later discovered that Brussels is actually the headquarters for the EU. Touché. The French and now Dutch rejection of the EU constitution has dominated ...
Our journey to Paris - Stage Three
This was the last stop before Paris, and where the most people got on. The tain was now full and the landscape more industrialised as we were getting closer to ...
Louven la neuve
I spend 2 nights at Louven La Neuve sleeping on Marie-Christine's couch (merci encore, c'etai vraiment cool de ta part de m'inviter comme ca) and spent 2 days visiting the nice university town and drinking beers I had not tried yet. I also bought my ...
Belgium Brussels Brugge Beer Bortzfields
... a really rude waiter who made us move when he found out we weren't eating. Now we're on the train about 30 minutes outside of Paris and we're a little apprehensive about Brussels... we did not understand anything they just announced on the ...
An evening out in Brussels
... met in April when we went to Cuba for a friend's wedding (they were also part of the wedding party) who lived in Brussels, called us and invited us out for dinner. We ended up going to a quaint restaurant in the restaurant strip that served traditional ...
Luveen
We've been in Belgium for a while now, the first two days we didn' really do anything we had class on monday from 10-6 it was a horribly long day. Sunday was pretty laid back we didn't do anything, jist hung around. TRhen for the last 3 days we've been ...
Down to Business
... means I can drop a couple classes making my Monday schedule less of a living hell. The business district in Brussels is very impressive (especially the european parliament buildings) and I look forward to being around that part of the city ...
Day 6 - Goodbye Fish and Chips... Hello Waffles!
... window that would take our credit card, so we hopped a train and headed to the Schuman station. We quickly learned that navigating Brussels was more tricky due to the fact that everything was written in French and Dutch. When we finally made it to the ...
Gerdje, Pol and Breendonk
... was over. on our walk back to the car pol and i got into a bit of a snowball fight (i've learned since arriving in belgium that I really enjoy snowball fights) and we were on our way to drive around in antwerp. ok, i'm wiped out. i ...
Things I want to see
When I go to Tallinn, there are a couple of things that I really want to see. - Tallinn old town of course, even though I've been there before, it's still a wonderful place to walk around and go to the "Hell Hunt" pub (which has NOTHING to do with ...
silver lining, maybe?
... patient. we got along very well and i was glad to be with him. my first full day in brussels i visited central station, had a "hamburger classique" with gouda cheese and special sauce and famous Belgian salad (beautiful greens with some ...
days in brussels
... entrys and this is going to be quick one sorry ill start off by tell you whats happened on the second day i went to a belgium comic muesum about non other than belgium comics it was all right but not dropdead slap your face silly fantastic then the next ...
Brussels
Today we visited "La grande place" and a Tintin store. Nick ate his first belgian waffel and we also went to the "Musé de la BD". I am mostly showing nick places I have ben to for now, the real exploring will start in a day or 2. Afterwards we take a ...
Belgium, Family and Fun
... and found I could place calls; just as I thought it was a setting that had not been checked in the phone. Our goal in Brussels was to 1. Visit with our friends and her family and 2. Drink a beer. Ghislain, Pascaline’s husband was more than happy to ...
Frites and cartoons
There are a few interesting things about Brussels, which reminds me a bit of a smaller and dirtier Paris. First is that they are obsessed with cartoons, which is an odd one, all things considered. Second is that there are little corners of greatness ...
Lets here it for Holland
... harder so we just drove round a bit, nice place but a bit to posh for us. Later that day we hit Brussels and the weather cheered up a bit, Belgium is a funny place the east is defiantly has more of a Germanic feel and the west was happily starting to ...
The peeing statue of Brussels
... , and got on. Jeff's bag got in trouble because of his swiss knives but we were able to go just fine. Slept the whole way to Brussels. We put our stuff in a locker at the train station (HUGE lockers there) and hit the city. We had about 8 hours to ...
Brussels
Brussels was slightly dissapointing, but only slightly. We wasted way too much time to see only a couple of things - the Grand Place, Main Square, lined with amazing facades of the guild buildings, tiny Pissing Boy statue, surrounded by flocks of ...
The Muscles from Brussels
... made me free spaghetti and then as i watched cops. 15 polish girls came in from an all girls university excursion to brussels. They wanted to talk about Australia. Ok then i thought... They eventually disapeared. They were studying economics so they were ...
Lost Luggage/Pride cometh before......
What bliss to finally arrive in Brussels. We certainly enjoyed Helsinki airport as it had a definite identity..lots of reindeer things for sale etc...and the lady there was happy to make sure our luggage would be on the plane with us and not left in ...
Brussels
... . This was just about the most fun way we can imagine to spend 20 Euros. Restaurant: Jacques. The place for Mussels in Brussels. Hotel: Hotel Galia. This is a great budget hotel with bizarre art all over the hotel and a large and entertaining bric a ...
En Belgique!
I made it and am slowly getting my feet under me! The plane ride over was fine, but the jet lag and overwhelming situations I was faced with upon arrival were challenging to say the least! The weather upon arrival was a characteristic grey mist ...
Grr...pickpocketers
... license and my student ID. and we probably will now have to miss bruges since we lost a day grrr people.. Anywhoie..I love brussels still even though you have to be careful when shopping for lace tablecloths in the marolles flea market. Everything here is ...
Bruxelles
En sortant de la gare Les abords de la gare sont étranges : de grandes artères alimentées par des rues plus petites bordées de maisons d'âges et styles différents. On reconnaît le style architectural du Nord auquel est ajouté un style plus ...
waffles, chocolate, beer and fries with mayonnaise
Bonjour from Brussels After a short trip on a high speed train from Paris, we arrived in Brussels on Saturday afternoon. Brussels has been an interesting place due to it being considered the capital of Europe and all the diplomats from the ...
Capital stop for couple hours
... peeing in a ally way, but could not find this one either. Not worth fighting the crowds. This is the usual stop for people going to Belgium, but we would suggest skipping out on it for Brugge. Thanks for reading. Jake and ...
Jääkiekon voittotunnelmia Suomi-baarissa
Pääsimme löhtemään Madridista vasta iltapäivällä neljän jälkeen, eikä matka lähdön jälkeenkään sujunut kovin hyvin. Ennen kuin pääsimme Ranskan puolelle, jouduimme ylittämään useamman aika korkean vuoriston ja siellä satoi ...
The ride to Brussels.
4:07 PM. Washington/Dulles airport waiting for my 5:35 flight to Brussels. Guess what I just did? Ever hear of the preventive cold medicine invented by a schoolteacher? It is called 'Awesome' and I just popped one in my mouth because a lot of folks ...