Conrad Hotel Brussels

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 ...

... filled with tourist traps. This is the historic hotel that we stayed in our last night in Brussels, upon our return from Bruges.  It's called Hotel Metropole, the style is French Renaissance, and is the city's only surviving 19th ...

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 ...

... 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 8:45AM ...

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) ...

... café and store. We returned to our hotel at 5:30 pm. After showering and changing, we headed to the Belgian Beer Café Brussels for dinner. The busy restaurant and bar serves both local and European beer and food. Seon and I shared mains (appetizers are ...

... train. Back in Warsaw we went back to the hotel Metropol where we had stored our stuff and collected our train tickets to Berlin & Brussels (bought a month earlier on the Internet, phew). This time they gave us a room in the done-up wing which was nice ...

... one of those signs!). Soon after I reclaimed my bags, had them scanned for any possible arms that the Toronto, London and Brussels staff had missed (!), and headed out the door past the mass of people waiting for their relatives to the UNDP SUV. I ...