Hotel Hobbit Mechelen

Every two years, the weather man declared, there are strong gales in the south of England, the type that disrupt train services, housewives lose their laundry drying on the line, umbrellas get blown inside out - and even trees are blown down. This was the day that we chose to fly to England. It's OK, the gales will die down sometime in the afternoon, said the same weather man, but not after we've flown over to ...

... for them, on subsequent requests they were rejected. <br><br>No the boys haven't turned into the "muscles from Brussels". They were just having fun at Technopolis (a science museum) in Mechelen. They were able to play in a great water exhibit, ride a bike on a high wire, drive an ambulance, build a house out of huge Legos, "lift" a car (picture) and learn and play with many more things. A great ...

... honey mustard sauce or something.  Shortly thereafter I played some of the tracks on my laptop for Fatty K.  These would be the tracks he would hear through his headphones the next day.  We also listened to some of the music that I considered to be worth mentioning in terms of influence, e.g. Ceza, Rap Angels, Duoud, Enduser, K&amp;D, Amon Tobin, etc.  He played me a track by a hiphop artist named Safi on his label, Showarma records.  It was the fourth track off Safi's ...

... about an hour. My shoes were full of water but we made a good pace becasue everyone wanted to get to the end. After riding a quick 53km we arrived in Mechelen at 1:30. but the boat wouldn't be there until 4 so we had to walk around saoked for a few hours. We walked around the lovely town, saw the church and went to a pub for Belgian beer before a nice hot shower on the boat. Day 7 - Mechelen Today we had a free day in Brussels. After breakfast ...

It is 5 when I crawl out of bed. I cry cry over Jr. At 6 sharp, we are ready and at 6 sharp Linda picks us up. Do you have friends, who drive you to the station at 6 in the morning? We do! We are taking the train from Mechelen to Schiphol, where we have a straight plane to Kuala Lumpur. After buying the ticket in Mechelen, I ask Dr T (for the 3th time, he says) whether he has my 2 passports. Yes, this time I need 2: my new ...

... for their daily needs. Besides that, the couple had also arranged a tour at the cathedral's tower, Mechelen's most easily identified land mark, that raises about 514 steps above the ground! Needless to say we chose the relaxing boat ride, our athletic days are over I suppose... After about 45' we had lunch at one of the numerous little restaurants/cafes. Food, without any local specialities, was delicious and rather large in proportion to the money you paid, but service is ...

... At this point in my narrative, I want to give a big hearty thanks to Mark Smith, traveler, muse, author of the world's best website on train travel, yes, none other than...The Man in Seat Sixty-One (spend some time at his website at http://www.seat61.com/index.html to see what I mean). His section on the Trans-Siberian Express convinced me that these two old geezer ...

... Sad :/ We went back home later and as usual had a nice talk with Achim but too late for him again who has to work the next day. we simply prepared the sofa-bed in the living room and slept there. -------------- October 26 It's been a lazy day but there was absolutely necessary we needed to do is going to do our grocery, we walked to the Lidl to buy stuff and at the bakkery nearby and finally later in the evening when Achim arrived we made food together. Nothing ...

... street you're talking about anyway) to the Grand Place, home of some amazing buildings. They used to be guildhouses (money and law houses to monitor quality) of the local industries so there is a house of bakers with statues signifying the 6 essential ingredients of making bread (ok so I don't know what they are but that's what my guidebook says). We saw some other stuff but we didn't know what it was... wandered around a bit more and then got bored. Since we both ...

... and lots of chocolates. Thus, we were ready for "real" food for dinner. Around the corner from the brewery/beer store, across the street from the church whose carillon sung Beethoven's 9th several times during our visit, was an odd little restaurant that we think was also a cabaret or theatre or had some sort of performing art thing happening on the 2nd floor. It played lovely Parisian music, had a French menu that we couldn't understand, and ...