Hey <the flight was all right, I had to run in the Hong Kong airport not to miss my flight and did nt sleep that well but it s ok after 38 hours or so I m here in Belgium, jetlaged, tired and a bit desorientated but really happy to see my parents, and tomrrow the rest of my family! Thnaks to you all big kisses; I ll let you know the rest of my adventures (UK in a few days...) Hope it s all ok with you; and I hope to hear and see you all soon big kisses fron [View Full Entry]

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Once I arrived in Brussels, Kevin and Claudette drove me around a bit so that I could see a few things. But before I get into that- I was surprised by how much of everything was in English. For those of you who don't know, there is a division in Belgium between the French speaking South and the Dutch speaking north. And there is definitely a divide. We went to Waterloo, which is where Napoleon was defeated. The people have made this huge hill, and at the top there is a gold lion that watches over the city. It's interesting to [View Full Entry]

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Starting Mileage 90,000 Up early for our 10:00 AM ferry to Dunkerkque, set off around half 6 but didn't get far before having to pull over as the sheet holding everything on the roof started to come off so leaving us having to drive a slow pace the whole way to Dover.. Eventually arrived and boarded the ferry which was alright,average ferry horrible breakfast which wasn't helped when i tried the black pudding (smelt like pure ass).. After leaving the ferry we was in France for around 15min before entering Belgium and Brugge.. We stupidly attempted driving into the main city [View Full Entry]

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Not The Day We Planned... Staring Mileage 90,142 Woke up to the pouring rain which couldn't be worse when camping, so quickly packed up and left for Ghent, not a long drive from Brugge we arrived around 2, easily parked and took a walk around.. A very similar place to Brugge but not as tourist orientated.. Had a nice lunch in the square and decided to move onto Bruxelles and the Beer Museum.. About the same drive again we arrived to find the museum was closed, and after taking a walk around decided that we didn't want to spend long there, [View Full Entry]

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Following a predictable route we decided we would head to Brugge for a day trip. After rising at the leisurely time of 9am, we had breakfast at the hotel, and took as much extra pastries and fruit away with us as our bag could comfortably carry. Seems you can't take the backpacker out of us, even on a short weekend away!! We walked to the train station (Brussels Noord again). On the way we were treated to the rather fetching sight of a real version of the "Manneken Pis" statue. Only difference was this person was older, and more haggered. Oh [View Full Entry]

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For hundreds of years people have been arguing about whether to call deep fried pieces of potato chips or french fries. Chips is the english version whilst French Fries is the American. Today you will finally know what to call them................ Neither. Belgium is the home of the deep fried potato and in Belgium they are known as Flemish Fries. So there you go you can now entertain all the people you know and correct those who are incorrect and if any one asks what a Flemish is, you can tell them its the Language they speak in Belgium not something [View Full Entry]

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Both myself and Gina are from Ireland. We'd planned this trip months ago, a quick dash for a long weekend off to Brussels and on to Brugge. Hardly off the beaten track, but a track nevertheless. I'm a nervous traveller on aircraft, so was delighted to arrive in Brussels main airport unscathed after a wonderfully calm (and may i say cheap) flight from Dublin. We were very surprised to find the train to the city centre so easily, and even more surprised to find that it was a mere 5.60 euro for 2 people. Of course, i spent the next 10 [View Full Entry]

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Sunday morning I woke up really early. Everyone else in my room was still asleep but given some of the girls had commented about lack of hot water the morning before I decided I would get up early and shower. After checking my email (which was quite difficult given the keyboard is completely different and even logging into my email was a challenge) I headed off to see some more of Brussels - this time while it wasn't raining. So I headed to Palais de Justice which was quite a hike. By the time it hit 9am I was able to [View Full Entry]

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First - if you are getting this email for the first time it's because I made the decision to subscribe you - feel free to unsubscribe yourself though! I am slowly adding people I think might be interested but I will not be offended if you simply unsubscribe... So anyway, Friday evening straight after work I headed to Victoria Coach station to catch the bus to Brussels. I had to check in about 45 minutes before the bus left and we started boarding about 15 minutes before the bus left. I was going with National Express/Eurolines and the bus on the [View Full Entry]

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this last weekend my friend sina was gracious enough to invite me to belgium to stay with his family and visit the area the following is my recollection so friday i had the day off school which was nice cause it was sunny and lovely here in angers so i decided to rent a bicycle for the day from the town cause its like 8$ can. and super cute to ride around town with your basket filled of wine and baguettes and croissants...u know i do it. anyways i took the bike along the trails on the river cause this is [View Full Entry]

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