Conrad Brussels

EUROPE 2006: My last (teenage) hurrah. You can read about my travels here instead of receiving lame bulk email messages. Hurrah!

Our annual trip to Europe involved lots of rail travel. We home based at the Conrad Hilton in Brussels and made day trips to Amsterdam, Cologne, Brugge, and Paris. We then flew to Prague for 3 days before returning home to Austin

... Belgians seem to be more "night people", so we did a lot of walking by closed things.  Nevertheless, the architecture of Brussels was truly amazing.  Brussels (I didn't know this either) is considered the capitol of Art Nouveau.  ...

We arrived in Brussels this morning at 5 a.m. and were able to check in early at the hotel to shower and sleep.  The contrast from Africa is shocking, literally.  It is in the 50s and rainy.  The hotel is 5 star, beautiful ...

... to STAY UP!!!!  Well, kind of...  After a Le Mans - like taxi cab ride from the airport to the Conrad Brussels hotel (in record breaking time of 21 minutes, confirmed by my female, drum n' bass listening cabbie), I checked in at ...

... no frequent flyer tickets left, and rather than miss a year we reworked our agenda.  I was able to book a week at the Conrad Hilton in Brussels with Hilton points and we decided to make that our home base.   We used the high speed train to visit ...

... the flavor.  My wife was a fan on Kreik.  As if this was not enough, there are other things to do In Brussels.  Turns out they make decent chocolate as well.  We were quick to discover they were very proud of all their specialty ...

In the spirit of our transportation degrees, we took the high speed TGV to Brussels. I have a special place in my heart for Brussels. I loved the food and the Conrad Hotel was so ...

... interesting to rather intruiging, but never genius. Still very entertaining though. The Secret Sharer & Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad. Two brilliant short stories, though you'd need a dictionary to understand all the big words. Maybe Conrad used ...

After three days in Brussels, we took the short train ride to Bruges.  The culture there was a little different from Brussels; the people of Brussels speak French and eat lots of croissants, while Bruges speaks Flemish (a dialect of dutch) ...