Leuven City Hostel
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Lost in Leuven
... new street for a change of scenery because it ran parallel to the one I usually walk on. WRONG. Not parallel at all! So I wound up on the complete opposite side of town in an area I had never ever seen. I was walking around the campus of the Catholic University at one point. Good news is, I have a map. OH WAIT, I left it in my bedroom that morning. How convenient. So my 20 minute walk turned into a 45 minute panic. Eventually I just started following people like the creep that I ...
Rock On
... whilst I tried to figure out exactly what I was doing but after standing in the sun speaking to him for an hour I was bloody hot so I wandered back to the campsite to cool off and have a drink. Somehow I fell asleep and wasted half an hour and woke up in a daze not knowing exactly where I was. But all’s well that ends well and I eventually decided I had to bite the bullet and pay whatever I had to because I was going in so matter what, thankfully I ...
Arriving in Brussels and our first day in Leuven
... by Leffe Trippel’s to send us off to la-la land. The beers are amazing. We can’t figure it out, maybe because we are tired, but they seem fresher, crisper, and in such a perfect taste combination for their style. Truly outstanding!
We head back to the hotel and take a deliciously long nap to allow our bodies to get back in sync. We awake refreshed. After a nice long hot shower, we head out on foot towards our ...
Because You're Drunk?
... seconds; until he asks the all-important question of do I work here?? Conversation end, and I move to the second of the two deep trenches dug here to where a man is brushing away at a patch of earth, revealing the skeleton of a child.
There is an excavation site along one side of the river. Along it are two towers sitting atop concrete bunkers from which people can view the surrounds and look and informative plaques (in Flemish and French). Originally a wall for the city ...
If you like beer...
... with two cute local girls to go see Inglourious Basterds, which I thought was a good movie in spite of needing one of the girls to translate the French parts for me so I could know what was going on for much of it (the subtitles were in French and Dutch; as stated previously, I speak neither). After the movie they (reluctantly) left because they needed to go home, so I went back to the D.T.C.'s absinthe bar. Absinthe is illegal in the United States (the potent stuff ...