Ibis Brussels

... in the country and don't have any coins with you. We should all smell less terrible soon because we got a room at the Ibis Hotel, conveniently located across the street from the train station. I probably slept a little less than 2 hours on the Chunnel, ...

... them a little wheelchair aware. Not so really!! This was a hard city for us to get around. But we trudged on because Brussels has something that nobody else has. In fact it’s a very special person who has become Internationally famous. He has more ...

... "urinating" into a pool.  Apparently there are several different stories about why the statue exists, but nevertheless, it's a part of Brussels, so we took some pictures of it.  We also made our way to the largest covered shopping area in ...

... basically jalepeno poppers, but not whole peppers, they were strips of peppers.  They were amazingly good.  We then headed towards Brussels.  The bus ride took a little over 2 hours to get there.  We then had about two hours before we ...

... were now experiencing late autumn early winter in Europe, we haven’t had a sunny day since leaving Switzerland. And arriving in Brussels in Belgium was no different. We were actually staying 20mins out of the city in Waterloo, at the time we booked ...

... of Brussels, the train announcements were only in Flemish, as opposed to the French and Flemish announcements in the mainly French Brussels. We are finding the Flemish manageable as we get used to its weird bastardisation of German/Dutch with some French ...

It's already time for us to say goodbye to Amsterdam and move on to Brussels... I can't believe it! But we had a great time in this city. Yesterday (Sunday), we packed quite a bit into our day. We started off by walking east to the Nemo maritime museum, ...

... late afternoon free so I did a Hop-on Hop-off tour, ticket good for 24 hours, so I did it again the next morning. Brussels is a huge city which, I suppose, is to be expected since it is the seat of the EU Capitol. It encompasses beautiful old world charm ...

Bruxelles, capitale de la Belgique et berceau du parlement de la Comunauté Européene mais aussi la capitale de la bande-dessinée (Tintin, Quick et Flupke, etc.), dont vous pouvez observer environ 300 murales La Grande Place oů vous pourrez découvrir ...

... was overwhelmed to see the crowded streets of Brussels.  coming from USA and then from Germany where people actually follow rules Brussels was the opposite.  it was crowded , dirty and no body was following any traffic rules.  so my first ...

... to be a direct train but there were 2 stops before Köln.  We ate sandwiches we had made from our grocery trip in Brussels and relaxed.  We arrived on time and the Köln station is very easy to navigate.  Found the rental car agency with ...

We caught a bus from Brussels to Lille in Northern France, this time a full bus and it was a stinky one. It was an hour late, there for we arrived at Lille main rail station at 2pm. There we picked up our Avis hire car and headed for Ieper (Ypres) back ...

... . They just get along like a house on fire! It's a shame we dont live closer to them. We had decided to head to Brussels in the afternoon but after looking around Amsterdam for a while we found a candle light canal cruise which we wanted to do.  We ...

-After checking out from the hotel in Brussels, we went on a short tour of the Royal Palace in Brussels, which had a room with millions of green jewel beetle shells covering the entire ceiling, then continued on to Bruges -For lunch, a few friends and I ...

So we took a bullet train from Brussels to Cologne first where we got to visit the Gestapo museum and visit the store where, supposedly, the original cologne comes from. It would be very interesting to take a tour of the House of Perfume but ...