Hotel Industrie Antwerp

... the small gate. We did take some time to shop around at the usual stores within and grab a slice of pizza. Boarding the plane seemed to be a race as people swarmed the gate. The plane was loud because Ryan Air advertises and sells merchandise the entire time. I did manage to sleep a bit though.

After arrival, we then took a small shuttle bus into the city (about 1hr) and then in order to get to our hostel, we had to take the Metro. Needless to ...

Today Dorina took me to Antwerp, Belgium. Our train was an hour late arriving at noon and we had to be back on the train at 2:00, so we didn't have a lot of time to spend there. It is a lovely city with a mixture of new and old, modern and historic buildings. We managed to buy some Belgian chocolates and have some lunch before we had to be back on the train. Thank you Dorina; it ...

... 1. the pure exhiliration and freedom of travelling. I've always been interested in doing this. It's like a dream coming true. This is an adventure and as my dad says, "You're a long time dead". #2. I've got no commitments here - not even a flat (ah the joy of aparthotels!). Plus I've got some very sweet friends scattered around Belgium who are looking after my worldly goods (Thanks ...

... get the best seats." A city after mine own heart. I feel like I could transplant to Antwerp... if only I could master Flemish. Oh well... maybe I'm not meant to be from anywhere. I've always felt like a bit of a displaced person anyway. When things get dull and dreary in the winter, and everything starts to look the same, I'll remember Antwerp. Travel is my life... it has to be. When I fall in love with every city, it's unfair to ask me to choose one.

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 ...

Today, Eugine and I spent the day separately. I played golf with my father in law. It was a fairly difficult course and I managed to shoot 100, so I was satisfied. I now feel that I consistently break or hover around 100, regardless of the difficulty of the course. Eugine went into Brussels with my mother-in-law to go shopping and meet for ...

I searched online for planetickets. Then I went to an agency for ratings. Since it was the same, I prefer to book with a travel company. A little bit more security. There are 2 possibilities : A Direct Flight from Brussels to NY with Delta and from Boston to Brussels with American Airways for 579.94 Euro per person (18/05 - 05/06) An indirect ...

... nice and determined for us to get the most out of our time here in Brussels. He has lived and worked here for over 13 years, so he really knows his way around and what he is talking about. After the orientation, we went to dinner at the Grande Café just off of the Grande Place. The food was very good ....and the beer was too! I ordered a large Hoegaarden to start off with. When the waiter came back, he brought me a massive beer mug that I literally had to pick up ...

... the image of quaintness and the other sounds a bit too white-trash to me. But then again, I suppose this is a stereotype but it does help to have a decaying castle in your town instead of a decaying RV. Anyways, we followed the directions that we got from the B&B but couldn't find it. So we went back to the entrance of town and tried again. But no. After about 30 minutes of searching, we finally found it! We stayed at Les Olivettes (EUR 56 / night). The B&B also offers ...

... checked in. My favourite non-diamond related attraction in Antwerp wasn't PP Ruben's house, marvellous though that was, or even the statue of Silvious Brabo throwing the troll's hand away (complete with a fountain of water spewing from the severed wrist), but the fantastic Staue of der Laange Waaper outside Het Steen. This giant man is the Belgian equivalent of the bogeyman and he can stretch himself up tall to peep in your bedroom window. Dirty boy!