Martins Patershof Mechelen

... UK!<br><br>Brussels airport is emptier than I have ever seen it in my life. There are no more than 10 flights for the rest of the day. Eric and I are alone in the airport lounge, save for a couple of elderly people and their miniature poodle, which is snacking on a croissant. <br><br>We are waiting for our flight - it is delayed by half an hour as I write this. That's just fine, in fact, it can be delayed until ...

... of war. The names of over 30 000 more are inscribed on the wall of missing soldiers that were believed to be lost in the area. <br><br>We took some short day trips to some beaches and recreation areas. Recreation Park de Ster in St. Nikkolos was a really fun day. It offered more than just the beach with, yet again, amazing playgrounds, water slides, mini-electric boats and cars. At the recreation park in De ...

... Jan Cathedral - it's the biggest one in The Netherlands. 3rd June - Willemstad - Bike Tour The barge set sail at 7:00 and we arrived in Geertruidenberg at 10:00. The barge had to go through a loch to get there. We then started on the 55km ride to Willemstad. There are 20 people on the tour but due to the length and cloudy weather only 14 rode today. This meant that our speed was much faster and we arrived at the arge in Willemstad at 4:00. We had another city walk ...

... t spend much time in them. Also staying on the ship is the bike guide, the skipper and a cook (skipper and cook are normally a couple who own the boat). Each morning while eating breakfast you also packa lunch to take with you while your riding, all the food on the trip was awesome, especially the dinners. Day 2 - Vianen The boat started sail at 8 and reached Breukelen at 10 which is where we got off to start riding the 40km to Vianen. The ...

... Ik bel Linda terug. Zij is reeds op weg naar het station en keert terug naar ons huis. Een half uur later, komt aan zij met het paspoort. Wat zouden wij zonder haar gedaan hebben? Als iemand anders ons een lift zou gegeven hebben of wij een taxi zouden genomen hebben, konden wij niet zelfs terug thuis binnen. Daarom is dit verhaal voor Linda. Dank je, Linda en wij zijn je een sjiek diner verschuldigd. Ik weet reeds waar.

... us found ourselves in the beautiful surroundings of Mechelen! We all fell in love with the place instantly and starting to forget all about our sleepiness. Tom met us at the hotel (by the way, if you're ever in Mechelen, Hotel Ve is a very nice place to stay. Not really on the cheap side but very stylish, modern/minimal and brand new as it has opened last year. They do seem to be pretty fresh in this business judging from the small things, but they look so eager to get better and ...

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... feel the need to move already or at least to get some structured plans of what was going on. Not knowing if I should stay around with Dylan, if things would turn bad after that, so far the travel went really great without fight or anger and if we were still up to do some part of the road together. It affected my mood and especially my social one. I finished the risk game against Martin and WON!!! (I have to say it since we never win against him on Die Siedler von Catan). The ...

... Will do some final chocolate shopping on my last day here. In the main square there is the city museum. We went in, there is a lot of information about the history of Belgium. There are also many little costumes for Mannekin Pis that have been sent to the city from countries all over the world. The USA sent a costume of Elvis, Japanese sent a kimono, etc. Didn't see anything from Australia.

... Chimay, we drove to the small town of Silly in search of the Brewery de Silly. Melanie had discovered the Scotch Silly beer at the Brussels Beer Weekend and thought it would be fun to see where it was brewed. Plus, according to our map, there was another really good beer cuisine restaurant in Silly. This was another really tiny town, maybe 8 blocks long. Everything was closed except for a small local tavern where we decided to sample the beer ...