Hotel Industrie Leuven

... Todd had a chicken and mushroom pie which was deadest exactly Mum’s chicken and mushroom voluvants for entree and a steak for a main. I had what I thought would be lamb and crunchy salad and it came out and was lamb cutlets and crunchy salad!!! BONUS!. We had an excellent waiter who every time I asked for a coke said “ahhh ze American champagne”. I could go back there just to eat again. After dinner we headed to a pub that was recommended by our ...

... when we got off the train was hit up the Belgian waffle stand! We digested our waffles by shopping at Domo and Zara amongst others and saw the Stadius on Old Market Square, which is Lueven's "town hall," built in 1439. We also took in Sint Pieterskerk Cathedral, founded in 986 and built in 1425, across from town hall on our way to one of Les's hidden treasures for a late lunch. The dewerf ...

This was it. The reason I had come to Belgium. I got in to Leuven at some time during the day and managed to contact my friends and find their hotel room. I had to call on all my travelling experience for that one. Buttering up reception people at hotel chains so I can use their phones for free isn't easy. We met soon after in the reception. After not seeing eachother for about three or four months, it was really nice to have a drink with the ...

... the theme a little, but it was still pretty cool. We met up with a friend of Yannic's and his girlfriend, and wandered from stage to stage, drinking our beers to the rhythms of the festival. Tired as I was, it was a great night. This morning, after oversleeping a bit, we woke up to a breakfast of chocolate croissants and hot chocolate (I love this country!) and then once again set out for Leuven. The Eurotrek Leuven-fest was scheduled for noon. Well, we didn't ...

... for dinner. I only know Leuven University for its Egyptology department and Peeter's Publishing (mainly Egyptology books) is also based in Leuven so it seemed like a good place to stop and explore. Talk about a sleepy town! It had a university town feel to it with very few people on the streets. We wandered into a restaurant- An American and a Brit, eating Moroccan food in Belgium. You gotta love globalization. We had hoped to drive to Frankfurt tonight but we ...

Everyone slept until 10:30 this morning. It could have been a lazy morning except that we needed to get to the town hall to begin the process of registering ourselves as temporary citizens of Leuven. Hustled everyone out the door and went and had more passport pictures taken (that is about a total of 20 for Jonathan for everything he has had to do over the past few months). The town hall went smoothly as we only had to wait a short time and then basically they ...

... sign in the beginning. But hey, sometimes getting lost and wandering aimlessly can be the most fun you can have! I grabbed a turkey sandwich on the way back to the hostel - bad, dry wheat bread, though it had some nice veggies and tasty mayo. I wolfed it down rather quickly (2 PM already, and I'd only eaten a granola bar and a pain au chocolat - I always forget to eat when I travel!). Saw the girls on their way out to the park to ...

Hi all sorry about no entries lately, I've been really busy. Anyway right now I'm typing on a french keyboard. So I have two option. Type with two fingers and look for the right keys, or type without looking at the keyboard and hope I remember where all the keys are. I have choosen the later, given that using a french layout means i have to use the shift key just to type a "." or a "," or any number, it is really a pain. Anyway, from now on the majority of my ...

... Parc du Brussels, a very large green area in the center of town. It's nicely laid out but it seems as if they do not spend as much on maintenance as they should. I caught a cold. Mom and I have decided it was a good plan to end our holiday in Brussels. We saw more interesting things in other places and the weather turned bad here and there wasn't as much of interest to us. Wednesday night we ...

... hotel for the night. We got up really early on Sunday and walked around London, through Hyde Park, and all around Buckingham Palace. Then back to the hotel for breakfast. After breakfast we walked to the Speakers corner of Hyde Park where one speaker was preaching about the Timothy Mc Vey excecution. He drew a large crowd! Then we took the tube to the Chunnel station, and the chunnel to Brussels, then another train to Brugge ...