Hotel Egmont Mechelen

... 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!!

... the boys (Cohen with our help) enjoyed It seems as though districts try to outdo each other with their playgrounds. We have spent many hours exploring the different playgrounds of Europe! <br><br>We spent a day at Mini Europe and the water park Oceade in Brussels. Miniature size replicas of all the major sights in Europe were re-created right down to the smallest detail. Standing next to them made you ...

... beautiful and very grand Grote Markt. The party went on until the early hours....dancing to cover sounds of band Frituur Paula...the next day we took some bikes and cycled round one of the many beautiful lakes close to the city centre...and it was there to my biggest suprise I found the beach..... full of sunnbathers, swimmers and ice cream stalls....Belgium is that little country full of big suprises....

... in the world - it was massive and took about an hour to go through it. After tea we went to a beer cafe for a Beer Seminar and tasting. It was good and we had three beers to taste - one light flavour, one sweet &amp; one bitter. They were all nice and different. 5th June - Mechelen - Bike Tour We left Antwerp on our bikes at 9:15 in the rain. We all had our rain jackets and ponchos on. Unfortunately it kept raining all day! The jacket and poncho keept my clothes ...

... get going due to flat tyres - by 11:45 we had only done 1km. We then took a ferry across a river &amp; the pace increased. We rode for 45km &amp; reached the barge at 's Hertogenbosh at 4:15. We had a nice stop for lunch at a river, then we had a pub/beer stop with 6km to go. After tea we went for a city walk &amp; stopped at St. Jan Cathedral - it's the biggest one in The Netherlands. Day 4 - Willemstad The barge set sail at 7:00 and we ...

... tarde. Faltou praticamente a sede da União Europeia. Até a catedral vimos, sem querer! Mas tudo por fora... Jantámos numa rua movimentada, no centro, um spagheti. Não podia ser sempre hamburguers! :) da policia de Amsterdão nada! Deitei-me na cama e fiquei a ouvir um pouco de musica. O quarto estava calmo e os espanhois e ingleses chegaram pouco depois. Estava ansioso... para amanhã tinha planeado o melhor dia do interrail.

... Inhalt zu fuellen, war super, sehr modern, mit Tanzeinlagen und ohne Abgang der Schauspieler, die sich im Buehnen hintergrung umzogen. Ich habe auch alles verstanden, wenn die Walloninnen neben mir eine Atempause hatten. Und jetzt beginnen eine "Aufholwoche" an der Uni - oder anders genannt: Ferien... da kann ich endlich mal wieder Sachen einkaufen, schlafen, und und und... Bis zum naechsten Plausch, mit den besten Gruessen aus Bruessel, mart

... the Van Gogh Centre which is rather aptly named as apparently Vinvent Van Gogh used to work in the building). I don't know what it is with European hostels but this one also has the toilets/showers in strange places. The toilet (singular - for 32 people) is under the stairs and the shower is through the games room and downstairs: but it's clean and it has a kitchen so I can deal. We spent the day just wandering around orientating ourselves. We walked into town and ...

... that it is made as if by an artist - or some such b.s. In LaRoche (and later we noticed throughout most of Belgium) they had artisanal ham, artisanal cheese, artisanal beer and artisanal chocolates. I'm sure there are other artisanal products that I've missed because as we continued our travels we realized that the Belgians have discovered that if something is labeled "artisanal", the tourists will buy it. Here was a Patton tank from the Battle ...