De Granaetappel
Travel Blogs from Antwerp
The cross-road of Western Europe
... The notes echoed off the walls, while more and more people gathered around in support and cheered as they moved.
So…Belgium is famous for two things…Waffles and Chocolate… which we had to sample. We were told to go to a little waffle stand on the side of the street to get our first waffle. They are homemade and mind blowing, so we did. For our mid-day snack we stopped at a little bar on the ...
Only 2 weeks left...
... first started backpacking, I've always wanted to be able to go travelling without having to worry about flying home in a few weeks or getting back to a job. By travelling without too many set plans or dates I hope to avoid the 'wish I could stay a bit longer here' goodbye's and be able to shape my trip while travelling.
Only thing that is set this far is that I will be flying to Athens on November 22nd and mid December I am planning ...
Traffic, traffic everywhere.
I am begining to think Dave & I should stay away from buses. We got on a "Hop on & Hop off" tour bus today & can you believe we spent more time in traffic trying to avoid a bicycle race than seeing the sights. It would have been funny, especially when the driver went completely crazy on the telephone with his boss, but we really were trying to see some sights today. ...
Thrown Hands, Old Homes and Black Clothes
... scenes and actions that often decay as time progresses.
Round the corner and I find a few people congregating around a few windows in the brick wall. HSFB the giraffes! I look over with eyes wide in all directions at once. Slightly disappointed the giraffes are a good few metres away, behind another fence. But I did see them, just as the map said I would. Walking around the perimeter of the zoon the other windows look in on construction work and another school ...
Adventures in travel
... sure ive been to bigger stations in say latin america but they are just straight this one in brussels shoots up and off in ever direction and it musta been rush hour because it was packed and chotic i had no clue which was was which.
initially i Was going to walk into down as it was said to be only 2km away, however i asked some random guy for help and he told me to just hope on train 20 to antwerp and get off at the first stop 3 min away when i ...