Clarion Le Chatelain All Suite Hotel Brussels

... try tomorrow, but I headed to the Grand Place without camera for now and ran across a little Thai restaurant with 6 tables and scarfed some Pad Thai and egg rolls. I was hungry for asian food, but the stuff in Paris was mostly like Bel Air, already prepared and not hot. What am I supposed to do with that? Anyway, afterwards I found the Grand Place and stopped in one of the many fine chocolatiers where I chose about 8 little ...

... The food here was also fantastic with restaurants from most cuisines from around the world. You would wander up streets that had Italian, Greek, Turkish, French, German, the list goes on and on. Then there are the foods that Belgium is famous for Waffles, French fries, chocolate and beer. Now only being in the country for a few days didn't really give me all that much opportunity to try them all ...

... out... and we also met another pair from the US - sisters travelers... It's great hearing stories from other travelers, and also their opinions on different things - everything from art to food...to... anything really... The last thing i did in Brussels was buy amazing Belgium chocolate... their cheap chocolate is better than some of our expensive chocolate!!! Brussels is a strange city... but i could defiantely get used to it... It's charm grows on you. Next: Amsterdam!

... beer. After this we continued wandering and eating... We saw lots of sculptures, ate lots of food (chocolates, waffles (I had three!), beers, sandwiches, mussels), and got really tired. We also decided to stop by the Musical Instruments Museum. We were excited to find out that it was free today! When you go in you get a set of headphones and when you walk past each grouping of instruments the headphones pick up a wireless signal and play a ...

... of my bedroom, reading my book and chatting on internet. I had a plan to do some shopping but I never made it before the shops were closed. I had a plan to go to Gent with my brother, but he had a hangover from his Friday BBQ and so was less than keen to party again on Saturday. I called my friend Fanfan to see was she was up to, and she told me 'come with me to a concert'. Damn it, I got myself ready, I was looking tired already before starting. I was a bit ...

... kick ass beer! What more could you want for a weekend?? I was working in Luxembourg for 3 weeks. The time spent there was very stressful, so my colleague and I decided we needed to get out of Lux for the weekend. Now, Lux is a nice city, but there is not exactly a lot of stuff to do. There are also barely any direct flights out of the country. Since I have already visited most of the ...

... alle noch in der Phase, in der jeder niemanden kennt, sich also alle kennen lernen koennen. Super schoen. Im Laufe des Abends wird mir auch eine Wohnung angeboten - so muss das sein! Heute, am Tag danach, war ich dann da, nachdem alle gemeinsam gepicknickt haben und wir auch Risiko im Park gespielt haben (es ist super Wetter!), und bevor wir alle einen Crepes-Abend hatten, aber es ist ...

... electric locomotive at each end of a set of double-deck cars, of a similar age and style to the swanky EMU's we caught earlier in the day. We cruised back into Brussels from the north, on the approach to Brussels-Noord station we passed several buildings with interesting girls in the windows, lit up by red lights, right next to the train line. We are staying at the opposite end of town, in the south; the dodgiest it gets for us is the urine outside the Brussels-Zuid station ...

... of Tangier, that I’ve often seen from the train window, which just so happens to be the biggest red-light area south of Amsterdam, not coincidentally in the Dutch northern area of town. *****s line the showroom windows just as if there were canals, smoking cigarettes and scratching their butts. The Muslim area sells the same Muslim accessories you’ ...

... Venice but we decided to take a pass on both of these as we don't want to use all of my vacation days to see concerts - this was a mutual decision, not an edict from Julie as some of you will probably assume. But sticking to the title of this section, the drive, I will fast-forward to the ride home. We were very concerned all day about how long the ride home would take. I had to be in the office as normal on Monday because the others in my group were on vacation and I needed to be ...