Antwerp Youth Hostel "Op Sinjoorke"
Travel Blogs from Antwerp
Beer & Chocolate Central
... this railway station is extraordinarily beautiful. We won't mention the monstrosity of ugliness opposite it, in the Raddison Hotel (I think our B&B owner was kind in referring to it as 'Futuristic' in his walking instructions to the B&B).
Our B&B called Alegria is run by Rob and John who are two Belgians who have done an amazing job here. Only two rooms available in total, but the room itself and the detail with everything ...
Party
... a few treasures. We made our way to the river where we climbed on a ferris-wheel for great views of the city next to a market and open ice-skating rink and a castle. Thereafter we retreated back to our hostel to make dinner and catch an early ...
Beer, Beth and Belgium
... got cheap tickets to Brussels too because the railway were doing some sort of promotion for the holidays. Brussels was so different to Antwerp. It had far fewer old style buildings and was a lot more sort of industrial. It's the location of the EU headquarters and you can definitely see why. People in Brussels are almost all multilingual as the official language there is French despite being in the Dutch-speaking Flanders region of Belgium. Many people speak English too. ...
Belgium- Brugge + Brussels - A weekend of fun!
... sunday flea market which was filled with an assortment of random items from world war 2 medals, to old furniture, to stamps,cds, bags you name it, it was probably there. I would definately recommend visiting Brugge if you are ever in Belgium as it is super pretty city!
So that pretty much sums up my travels in Belgium. It was an awesome trip with some beautiful places and great good =D.
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Thrown Hands, Old Homes and Black Clothes
... small plan I have involved walking up the water’s edge, checking out the buildings as I go, before finding a nice place to relax. The water and the buildings do not meet. Between them is a cobbled stretch of car park, complete with concrete sliding door incase of flooding. Erwin mentioned yesterday that youngsters and pranksters had found a new favourite pastime of finding cars without their hand brake on and rolling them silently into the water, leaving the driver without wheels ...