Dolce la Hulpe Brussels

... Dutch all weekend (except for a few times when things would be in French, which was a more welcome sight than I would have ever thought), I can't tell you how familiar it felt to be back in French train stations! While I was reading a history assignment on Monday night, I realized that I had just been to the building they were discussing the day before in Brussels. I
love studying abroad! I can also say that I have already finished my box of chocolates ...

... doesn’t sound like me, does it?

We arrived at the train station, where I was finally able to bust out with some Spanish to get our tickets switched to the correct day and time. Besides all the "ouis" that kept popping up in my conversation instead of saying “sí,” I basked in the glory of being coherent in a language other than English. After a three hour bus ride, we were finally in ...

We were in Belgium for more than 2 months. A seeeeaaaa of time. That is what we thought too. But it was gone in no time. While we blinked. So many things we did not do. Many people we did not see. And many more, we did not see enough of. To those: I sincerely apologize. I DO have an excuse. No, no, no: more than one. First of all: I blame the internet and the mobile phone companies. Lots of mails got lost. I heard ...

Today we had to wake up and be out of the hostel quite early cos we needed to catch a train to Brussels. We got to the Paris station, Gare du Nord, on time but had great difficulty working out where to pick up our tickets etc and nearly missed our train. Thank god we didn't our that would have been 40 euro's down the drain!! The boys were catching a train 30mins later than us so when we got to the Brussels station we waited for them until they arrived. We caught a taxi ...

Hey All! I had a lot of trouble finding cheap internet in Belgium so I have to back date a bunch of these journals. Last Wednesday I began this little adventure by flying from Ottawa to London, arriving with 30 minutes to move between terminals at Heathrow....this however turned out to be just barely enough time for me to run the entire way....and not enough time for my bags to make the ...

... re out of work. But with that lack of stability comes opportunities like this. Plus I can look and apply for jobs on the internet from anywhere in the world which means I still keep that side of my life under control. #5. Cost. This trip is costing less than you might imagine - it will cost me more to stay here in Belgium than it willl to travel (and that includes flight tickets as well ...

Il fait toujours magnifique depuis un mois en Belgique. Encore plus beau qu'Espagne à en croire la météo d'Euronews ! Accompagnée de Yannic, ma cousine et de son... *roulement de tambour* nouveau fiancé, nous sommes allés visité le château de la Hulpe. C'est un château non loin de Bruxelles qui a appartenu à la famille Solvay de 1893 à 1968 (merci Wikipedia !). Le domaine du château est aujourd'hui ...

DAY TRIP TO BRUGES (French Spelling) / BRUGGE (Flemish Spelling) Date: Saturday February 10, 2007 Departure From Brussels - Gare Central: 9:04am Arrival in Bruges: 10:32am This is the first of 5 trips that I will be taking with my field trip class. There are 10 of us in the class, a mixture of study abroad students, full-time Belgian students, and other full-time European students. Our professor, is a French-Belgian woman in her late 50s ...

... right) - it's making cool parks for the public to use. but, central park is still cooler. sorry brussels. -mannekin pis: one of brussels hugest toursit attractions is this strange little statute fountain of a little boy peeing and the water comes out of his, well, er, yeah, you know where. they love this thing and everyone will tell you to go see it. it's a peeing little boy! i mean, really. apparently, there are two legends of why this statute is in existence: (1 ...

... should have gone out and explored a little around the neighborhood, but I wanted to have something written for tomorrow when I have internet access at the school. Overall, I am excited for school and my internship to start so that I can have more of a routine and feel a little more comfortable being in the house and no just sitting around awkwardly all the time. Well hopefully I will get this out to you guys sometime tomorrow. I miss you all and hope everyone is well. -Mo