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... UK!<br><br>Brussels airport is emptier than I have ever seen it in my life. There are no more than 10 flights for the rest of the day. Eric and I are alone in the airport lounge, save for a couple of elderly people and their miniature poodle, which is snacking on a croissant. <br><br>We are waiting for our flight - it is delayed by half an hour as I write this. That's just fine, in fact, it can be delayed until ...

... we had an exciting game of mini-golf (Cohen got a hole-in-one!), played on the playground and went go-carting. <br><br>We went on an excursion to Tessenderlo to ride the railbikes. The 8 km trek along the abandoned rail lines was unique and relaxing. Also, a trip to Kessel-Lo found us spending time in another of what seemed like endless playgrounds throughout Belgium. This one had a high ropes course ...

The surprising thing about Mechelen is that it has a beach. Inland sandwiced nicely between Antwerp and Brussels typically you would not expect this. ...I spent a lazy weekend here with my Belgium friends Wannes, Geert and Natalie, we trawled around the fish market...a cafe cultue area lining the many lovely canals ...the next night we celebrated Mecehelens defeat in the equivalent of the FA cup final.....in ...

... tea to see the sights of the pictoresque town including the very large windmill. 4th June - Antwerp - Bike Tour We left Willemstad on our bikes at 9:00. The group rode pretty fast and we saw more of the same scenery - windmills, fields, farms, and animals. we had lunch about 40 minutes before the end in a small town. We reached Thole at about 2pm and boarded the barge. We set sail for Antwerp (and Belgium) and arrived at 6pm after going through the 4th biggest ...

... ride pace was average/fairly slow so we both handled it easy which was good. We had a few stops along the way including one at a castle. We reached the ship at 4pm. After tea we went on a city walk around Vianen which is a lovely old town. Today it drizzled a bit in the morning and we got a little damp. Day 3 - 's Hertogenbosh The barge started sailing for Tiel at 6:30. We reached Tiel and dissembarked with our bikes at 10. It took us a while ...

... for... high heels... What took place in the City Hall, was the sweetest ceremony ever! The City Hall is also one of Mechelen's attractions as it is right accros the great cathedral, on Grote Markt, the central square! Steffi, our bride, is Bavarian, so she came dressed like Heidy, wearing a long stripped skirt and an equally long pink apron and had braided her hair, a white tight shirt with puffy short sleeves... she was sooooooooo cute!! After the first ceremony we took ...

... dele. A policia foi chamada e apareceu pouco depois. Levaram o senhor para a esquadra para o revistar e interrogar. E ficaram de me ligar antes de eu ir pra bruxelas. (tá bem tá...) A pousada de Bruxelas está bastante bem situada. Central. Ao lado do Sheraton. A 5 minutos da praça central. Boas condições. Calmo e com quarto escuro à noite. Bom pra dormir. Bruxelas é bastante pequeno, por isso conseguimos ver bastante numa ...

... Erlebnisses. Aber zu spaet, sie hasst mich und laesst mich das immerzu so "liab" spueren, durch Blickkontaktmeiden, nur mit anderen sprechen, und so weiter... echt lustig... jaja, jetzt regen sich gleich die naechsten auf, aber Nationalitaeten und Herkunft und Zeugs sind doch nun echt nicht so wichtig und ich wuerde auch wieder dahin fahren, wenn es dafuer einen echten Grund gaebe. Das Theater, um diesen Artikel noch halbwegs mit dem ...

... eating there. But still it is fairly easy to get around, provided the 'you are here' stickers are in the right spot on the map. We got off the metro at the stop near our hostel, checked the map and headed off - except instead of our hostel we found the next metro station. We double checked the map and it was different to the first one we had looked at and we had walked in the wrong direction (no Dad, we didn't read the map incorrectly!) We then found the hostel (it's ...

... to call these adventures, was to find dinner. Most restaurants were closed by now, so we went back to the place with the Hilton guy. They had Phantom beer available, so we got to try that. Chris thinks it's really good; Melanie thinks it's ok. It only comes in really large bottles though, (wine bottle size) so we both have to like it to open a bottle. We learned a new tourist catch phrase in LaRoche - artisanal. Everything there is artisanal ...