Avenue Studiotel Ostende

Koninginnelaan 27 Ostende, West Flanders, 8400, Belgium

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Final Morning and Final Thoughts

A travel blog entry by emfletche

Today is going to be a long day. Instead of the anticipation of reaching a new and exciting city, we’re heading home to the familiar grey streets of Birmingham and a final working slog until Christmas.

As the hotel was pre-paid, check-out is quick and painless. When the receptionist asks if everything was ok with our stay, it's on the tip of my tongue to mention the ...

Day 3 – Anniversary walks, carriage rides an

A travel blog entry by emfletche

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... for the Church of our Lady… this is such a stunning building, and the area around Bonifacius Bridge is just so typically what I imagine Bruges to be… all canals right up to the buildings, and crumbling, ivy-covered bridges.We head towards Minnewater – after all, today is our 3rd wedding anniversary, and where better to be than ‘Lovers Lake’? We head into the Beguinage, obeying all the explicit requests for silence – only to ...

Lots of rest in Oostende

A travel blog entry by steveandkat

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... a lot of fun.

But our eagerness to get to the UK hit soon after spending so much time in bed. Before we knew it, we found ourselves boarding the Eurostar train from Brussels to London, England! We had previously expected to take a Ferry from Oostende to Dover, but nothing was available for when we wanted to leave. It ended up working out for us in the end, because Steve had been excited to take the Eurostar since we started planning this trip. This train travels ...

Fire Exhibit

A travel blog entry by steveandkat

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... of this affected people. For instance, there was one road which was very dark and lined with pots bursting with flames that we walked along. Tied to the trees were old radio's which were playing very odd and suspenseful music behind a male or female narrative. I'm not sure what they were saying because each radio spoke in different languages. Only one spoke English and the man speaking didn't seem to make any sense. I think he was talking about ones consciousness and ...

Aaah, Brugge

A travel blog entry by eurotrekker01

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... so kind and noticing, so we ended up with two beers each, oh and I forgot to mention the beer here is unfiltered and starts at 6.5 % and goes up from there, so with a hot day it doesn't take much to get half lit! I wondered about that from the other day when I had ordered a beer and it had a 9 below the name, it was 9%! Good beer mind you , but you don't want to many of those at once.
We finished our day off at a local restaurant ...