Dias 30 a 32 - Ir a Bruxelas é como viajar no tempo. Não para o passado, devido aos seus prédios históricos, mas para o futuro. O futuro de uma Europa que não dá a devida importância ao seu maior problema: a imigração. Se Londres é a cidade com maior quantidade de imigrantes e a Antuérpia com a maior diversidade de países, Bruxelas deve ter a maior proporção de imigrantes. Apesar de estar em na região de Flanders, oitenta por cento dos habitantes falam francês, o que facilita a vinda de imigrantes das antigas colônias francesas, como Argélia, Marrocos e Senegal. [View Full Entry]

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……and chocolate….and mussels? Of course you did and we are happy to report that they are each quite kind to the palate. Our travels in Belgium took us to Brugge, Gent and Brussels; we had hoped to see Antwerp but that will be saved for a future trip as we ran out of time. What we learned while in Belgium is that they have focused their talents and have become world class producers of beer and fine chocolates. They are the BEST!!!! Seriously, there can be no debate here. The beers and chocolates that we tas [View Full Entry]

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I realized today that the majority of the discriptions I was writing were in my little book, and not to those who were reading this blog. I am super tired from today so I will return tomorrow to describe for you all that I can. Although to most of you these writings will come at the same time I assure you they are from different days. Until my day off, bon soir -Kati [View Full Entry]

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Ok so some of you might remember how I said that I was going to walk less today? Well I think I ended up walking more. Oh well. Shitty thing, and I should have realized this sooner, but I loaded the film in the camera wrong and as I was walking through the hugest park taking all of these pictures, nope none of them counted because there wasn't film. So I stopped got the coffee I should have before I left for the Park. Cooled my heels, then went back to retake some photos that really needed it. Then jsut headed [View Full Entry]

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All righty. I take back anything I've ever said about jet lag, and these damn wierd key boards. My typing has slowed significantly. After around 24 hours of traveling, I decided not to wait when I got out of the metro to orient myself, and ended up wandering around in circles just one street off for a few extra minutes. Finally made it, I've not looked forward to a cold shower in so long. It's 7am here so that'd make it 11pm in the states. I'm talking to you from the future! HAHAHA! Anyhoo other than being in the airports for [View Full Entry]

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I can't even begin to describe the beauty of this city. Even though it's not as beautiful as some of the pictures of Paris I've seen, it's still really beautiful. The metro is fast, easy to navigate and seems to run on the honor system. You could not get any kind of pass and no one seems to be the wiser. Of course i got ,y passes, I'm just saying that you oculd. I'm not too sure how the metro is regulated, but it seems to work for them. I managed to walk the whole of the city today. I was [View Full Entry]

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The Beak Brothers are off to Brussels on the 12th November. This is the 3rd annual BBBBB (Beak Brother's Belgium Beer Bonanza), and we will update the blog with our exploits on our return. [View Full Entry]

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I was pretty impressed and felt quite at home in Bruxelles...The Apartment I rented was walking distance to the Central Station and close to all the main attractions...The city was crowded, but i enjoyed walking in its narrow streets and through its beautiful galleries...The apartment was next to the Gallery Royal St Hubert, which was a beautiful iron and glass, similar to Covent Garden of London and housed very exclusive stores...The food in Bruxelles was amazing, Mooles and Frites, fresh waffles, amazing, mouth watering chocolates... Visited some museums and the Art Nouveau architectural wo [View Full Entry]

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Ok so just incase no one hears from me more than 4 days at least you know where to start your search. Brussels, Belgium till the 20th september Amsterdam, Netherlands til 27th september Bremen, Germany for 4 days after that Berlin, Germany october 3-8 Stuttgart, Germany til 12th Koln (Cologne), Germany til 17 Brussels, Belgium til October 20th [View Full Entry]

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Bonjour, I arrived back from Madrid at 9am, and as I mentioned before, it was frightfully cold at 13 degrees in Brussels. I got my stuff back to my place, and then went out chocolate shopping for gifts for people back home. After stalking up, I went to visit my favourite ice cream place and my favourite durum place one last time. For dinner, I met Claude and two of her friends, whose names escape me right now, and we went to Skievlat Sablon, which is a restaurant that Anne had found randomly on the study tour. It became my favourite [View Full Entry]

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