Novotel Brussels

So we have divided up this entry into our favorite things from Brussels. Here goes mine... In all honesty, I was not looking forward to Brussels that much. Originally we had planned to go to Rome or Madrid...but we hesitated...and the price ...

... . Apparently it is much, much cheaper to call the Brussels from the United States than it is to call the United States from Brussels, so I would advise anyone interested to call me from a calling card or something like that since I will quickly go broke ...

... house)... the cafe culture never disappointed and never got old. 3) Da Vinci: Out of sheer coincidence, our time in Brussels nicely overlapped the opening of the world's largest Leonardo Da Vinci expo. The exhibit was held in the mammoth ...

... us to get up at a reasonable hour, which was probably wise so we would not waste the day.  Mondays in Brussels are typically uneventful.  Most attractions are closed in addition to many restaurants and shops other than the tourist traps in ...

... Palace, the churches, the chocolate "crawl" of numerous chocolatiers in a row, mobile waffle vans...basically everything you come to Brussels to see.    Our walk of Upper town and dinner and drinks in Grand Place as told by Julia: Since ...

... old man picked me up near the border. He didn't take me far, but he took me to a major artery on the way to Brussels. Nothing special happened until I got to the petrol station just outside of Leuven. I called my host, Albrecht, to see where he was ...

... silver Atonium. We photograph the Mannekin Pis. [I never understood the love of this small bronze statue but it represents Brussels. Perhaps it's found in the irreverence of the artist.] Paula was our guide for several days here. Her stellar knowledge ...

... to get our bags and caught the earlier train to Brussels. We're glad we did because it was quite hard to find our way around at Brussels. Funnily enough we ran into mum, dad, Kaye, Adye and we were able to see them off on the Euostar train. Clare & Alison ...

... , for the challenges of life on the road to creep back up. To be specific, it only took until we reached the Brussels Airport, about 2 hours after leaving home in Beerse. Egypt Air could not issue our boarding passes to Aswan (via Cairo) since United ...

... to take the train to Berlin instead of flying. My only other experience on a high speed train was on Thallys from Paris to Brussels. We booked the tickets online two weeks in advance and were lucky enough to get the reduced price fare. I was hoping that ...

... ...they all look vaguely sane (will keep updated on that!). We left Londont to Dover and then over to France and down into Brussels in search of our 1st bush camp home!. Down in a small village we stumble across a football field and after some ...

... to Lille 12 June 2009 12 June 2009 Collect Rental Car from Hertz Lille 12 June 2009   Travel to John and Hilde (Brussels, Belgium) 12 June 2009 12 June 2009 Stay with John and Hilde 12 June 2009 14 June 2009 Travel to Graeme and ...

... to visit- as long as you remember to bargain at every turn-. If you do make it to Abidjan (Direct flights from Paris and Brussels, non-direct and cheaper through Casablanca), you can easily pay no more than 30$ a night for a room in a residence. Some ...

... to work backwards on figuring out how to get there.  Sometimes it wasn't completely obvious, such as Zanzibar to New Delhi via Brussels and London or Athens to Marrakesh via Milan.  Or, for that matter, Auckland to SF via Tahiti.   For the ...