Holiday Inn City Centre Brussels

... wheels, but I want to get on the road. Monday I got up early and headed to Gare du Nord to take the high speed Thalys to Brussels. Took about an hour. Walked to the hotel first, which was close and dropped my bags off because checkin wasn’t for another couple of hours. Then I took off to find my bearings. At this end of town it’s a lot of Arab immigrants on the streets. Saw a sidewalk sign for Lamb Tangine which I hope ...

... honey and vanilla. Yum!

The next morning, we started our walking tour of Brussels. We first went to church right down the street from our hostel, then walked to the main plaza. It had several gorgeous buildings including the Town Hall and what is now the national museum. We went into the museum, and after spending about 15 minutes trying to fit all of our hiking backpacks into too-small lockers, and like the architecture students that we are, we were ...

... are several hundred. I didn't get it, but I took a picture anyway. However, the outfit he is wearing is significant as it is the National Costume of Belgium. Tomorrow (Sunday 18th) is Belgium's Independence Day and Brussels puts on a huge show. Outside the Presidential Palace today they were setting up grandstands and displays in expectance of a crowd over 300,000. What was different is that instead of partying on Sunday, the real action ...

... instruments, you were able to hear what they sounded like in context... it would be so cool to do a dance piece through that museum... you'd learn some cool things about improvisation! That night was nice. It was the first time i've really been able to get to know any of the other backpackers. We met travelers from the US who were in France teaching English, but quit their jobs and decided to travel before going home, we met Canadians - who were so charming and ...

Bruselas: Seguimos todavia con las preparaciones y decidimos crear este blog para asi mantener informado a quien le pueda interesar nuestas andanzas y asi no molestar a la gente con esos mails tan largos que dan pavor al abrirlos y ver la cantidad de lineas y cosas que estan escritas. Escribiremos de vez en cuando para contar un poco sobre nuestras experiencias y ...

... Markt) and people all dressed up everywhere. Today they even had the whole centre of the city closed to traffic. Brussels is huge, about the size of Vancouver, so it was pretty impressive. We ventured outside of the city to a Museum on Africa (Belgian Congo stuff) which was very cool but getting there was nuts. The subways and tram cars were like sardine cans, some were so ...

... oli todella jännittävä ja me molemmat istuimme koko pelin ajan kuin tulisilla hiilillä. Suomi pelasi todella erinomaista jääkiekkoa ja sitä oli nautinto katsoa. Pelin päätyttyä koko paikka räjähti hurjiin voitonhuutoihin ja tunnelma oli todellakin katossa. Loppuilta jäi kovin lyhyeksi, kun kävelimme takaisin kämpille ja menimme aika pian sen jälkeen nukkumaan. Seuraavana päivänä oli 1200 kilometrin matka ajettavana ja me halusimme lähteä mahdollisimman aikaisin.

... weekend. At 10 PM Moby went on stage. Neither of us are Moby fans, I think we were the only two out of 125,000 people who felt that way. The crowd went crazy for Moby. It was unreal. Stephen and I assumed that in the states he would probably play a small venue, like 10,000 people and probably not even sell that out. During his performance, Moby announced that he learned how to say something in French (which caused the crowd to boo, b/c he learned French) that he wanted to share. He ...