Express By Holiday Inn Antwerp-City North

... wind dies down, honestly! We have six hours to wait in Heathrow, where we will buy stuff that's either cheaper or more familiar than stuff in Brussels, we will eat something (farewell weight watchers, knew my trousers wouldn't be baggy for long..), probably take the mickey out of English travellers in their football shirts and sit in the lounge and write on the blog.<br><br>Very excited about going to Thailand!!

... gouden eeuw en wordt Antwerpen het brandpunt van antikatholieke woelingen: bij een godsdiensttelling omstreeks 1580, georganiseerd door stadhouder Willem van Oranje, bleek 33% van de bevolking aanhanger te zijn van het calvinisme, 17% van het lutheranisme en 50% van de katholieke kerk.<br>De stad sloot zich vervolgens aan bij de Pacificatie van Gent en was gedurende de komende 9 jaar de hoofdstad van de anti-Spaanse opstand. De Tachtigjarige Oorlog betekende het einde ...

... served with mayo and vinegar. They were much better than they sound. Most of the ship went on an optional trip to Brussels this afternoon so we pretty much had the boat to ourselves. Tooks lots of photos and read up in the sun room. The entertainment after dinner last night was awful: the guy was a lounge lizard and the girl actually sang "Stormy Weather"! Love, Mary/Mom

It's now been one month living the Belgian life. In honor of this special occasion, the city of Brussels was kind enough to throw us Beer Fest 2007. All right, so it wasn't really for us, but after your third or fourth glass of 12% volume beer, you can convince yourself of anything...Including that eating a Belgian waffle and fries are a good idea. With that attitude, we will have left ...

... 3-4 of which are Softball teams. The remaining teams make up the farm system leading up to the professional team that I have been asked to pitch for. In Belgium the players don't play on teams for their respective schools like in the states, instead, they grow up playing in an organization like the Pioneers. Sven for instance has played in a Pioneers uniform for 16 years! He has grown ...

... session. When I first walked into the erg room, everyone else immediately jumped onto ergs and I was told since I was the new girl that I had to use the ****** erg. This erg was a concept...I believe. It was SO old that all the labels had worn off, only one button worked on the screen. The slide was covered with black **** and the handle was this tiny little thing made of rough wood. My poor hands were ripped apart! But once me got started the ...

oui oui, je suis toujours en vie Mais ce stupide clavier azerty n'aura peut=etre pas le meme sort Je suis bel et bien arrivee a Bruxelles dimanche et tout s'est bien passe Vero a un super appart, sa soeur et elles sont des hotesses modeles et Bruxelles et beaucoup plus sympa que dans mon souvenir. Le seul nuage a l'horizon, a part ceux de ...

Antwerp is known for its diamonds and it lives up to its billing. We got off the train, headed out, in what we thought, was the right direction and passed nothing but diamond and jewelry stores for 3 blocks. It was like a whole town built with EE Robbins. We then walked about 45 minutes with our 35 pound packs to find our hostel. It is a bed and breakfast run by two homosexual guys from Thailand ...

... girl. Got back to the hostel at about 4 to check into my room only to walk into a 12 bed girls dorm and find a guy sitting on the first bed....confused I was until his friend walked in and they started chatting and I realised that he was just waiting for her......Nick and Jackie - from canadian (i did make the mistake of asking what part of the states they were from) had just arrived in and we got to talking before I headed back out to have dinner.

... well. The food was very good and not very expensive (I think about EUR50 but I don't remember). After dinner we went to a really awesome bar called the Kulminator. This bar is apparently world famous for having among the best beer lists. The list comes in a binder with over 500 different beers, mostly Belgian. The Kulminator has beers from as far back as the 80s. Think about that, a 20 year old beer. Chris and Melanie are very knowledgeable about beer so they educated us a bit. And ...