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By granatesxelmundo
July 10th 2008

A los toboganes de agua!

Europe » Belgium » Brussels-Capital Region » Brussels

Flotando en la pile

De ciudad en ciudad, de país en país, las vacaciones se venían transformando en una máquina de gastar energía. Por supuesto que, usando una famosa frase argentina, "sarna con gusto no pica" o "calavera no chilla". Pero un día de relax no viene para nada mal. Y dado que nos gustan mucho los juegos de agua, decidimos pasar un día en el Oceade de Bruselas. Se trata de un bonito parque acuático, situado en el Brupark, un área muy grande con distintas atracciones. Como es una zona donde la mayor parte del año hace frío, se t [View Full Entry]

By Adventure08
July 10th 2008

Milk Chocolate is for the Weak

Europe » Belgium » West Flanders » Brugge

We facebooked a couple people: parker's french sister and janna. our friend from the american bar the previous night. French sister was off in germany and unable to help. Janna generously opened her home. She is living in paris for the summer while she does biochemical chemistry (something about yeast). She stayed in our hostel one night after some difficulties with mother. Luckily for us, she opened her home. We hiked on over (it was only 20 minutes away from our hostel) and headed up five sets of stairs to reach their flat. We had such a great conversation with janna [View Full Entry]

By KELLY FINN
July 10th 2008

Beer, Chocolate, Waffles what could be better

Europe » Belgium » Brussels-Capital Region

Saturday.. We went to the Van Gogh museum earlier in the morning. The museum is a smaller museum but it contained a lot of information about Van Gogh. It was interesting to read about his life, I learned many things about he I did not previously know. I was a little disappointed that many of favorite pieces he has done were not there. Although I have a new favorite, Blossoming Almond Tree. It was fascinating to see the actual work done by someone so famous. The actual brush strokes of all his pieces were breathtaking!! We then proceeded to the Tulip [View Full Entry]

By granatesxelmundo
July 9th 2008

Brujas, una de las ciudades mas antiguas de Europa

Europe » Belgium » West Flanders » Brugge

El carruaje

Brujas, la Venecia del Norte, es una ciudad amable, que conserva un rico legado de los tiempos, ya lejanos, en los que fue metrópoli potente, con un poderío económico que se vino abajo cuando perdió su cualidad portuaria. Ese fue nuestro destino siguiente. Hoy Brujas tiene una vida apacible. La belleza de sus casas, el encanto de sus canales, el orgullo de sus viejos edificios, hace de la urbe un destino apetecible. Desde el año 2000 esta vieja ciudad es Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO. Lamentablemente llegamos en un día donde la llu [View Full Entry]

By granatesxelmundo
July 8th 2008

Bruselas, que lindo es el nene haciendo pipí!!!

Europe » Belgium » Brussels-Capital Region » Brussels

En el "Mannequen pis"

Nuestro próximo destino fue Bruselas, la capital de Bélgica y el centro administrativo de la Unión Europea. Es considerada la capital de la Unión Europea, con lo que eso implica: mucha gente de distintos países conviviendo... y mucho tráfico! Veníamos de pueblitos pequeños de cuentos, cuando entramos en el caos vehicular de Bruselas. Por momentos pensamos en ir a buscar otra ciudad, pero con un poco de paciencia pudimos llegar a la estación de trenes y conseguir al [View Full Entry]

By katiealice
July 8th 2008

LONDON

Europe » Belgium » Brussels-Capital Region » Brussels

center court at Wimbledon

Happy late Fourth of July!! I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend and got to see beautiful fireworks (because I didn't :( ). I'm sure you are wondering what I did for the holiday because I know the title does not give it away! I went to England, London to be exact. I had to get up super early on Friday morning to get to the train station at 6:30 in the morning!! I didn't expect to go through border patrol or customs to get into the UK. We didn't have to for France and the UK is part of the [View Full Entry]

By leannenufc
July 7th 2008

Farewell to Belgium!

Europe » Belgium » Antwerp Province » Antwerp

Antwerp Central Station

Our whistle-stop tour of Belgium ended with a brief trip to Antwerp-on realising our train to Amsterdam went through the city, we couldn't resist stopping off there to see the location of Rob Lee's famous hat-trick of headers in NUFC's return to European football in 1994 (well, famous to people in Newcastle, anyway!) ;o) Our train was at 7:30am and it was a double-decker, which I found quite exciting! Why don't we have them in England?! We were slightly delayed, arriving in Antwerp at 8:15am, and so after storing our luggage, it was a rush into the city to see what [View Full Entry]

By ann sofie
July 6th 2008

Beginning of the blog

Europe » Belgium » Brussels-Capital Region » Brussels

BXL under the rain

Just the first entry, to test and begin the blog :) [View Full Entry]

By leannenufc
July 6th 2008

Onwards to Belgium

Europe » Belgium » East Flanders » Gent

Walking into Ghent

After a busy first day of the holiday, we were up at 7am fully rested and ready to do our first bit of Interrailing! Our hotel was only about a five minute walk to Lille Flandres Station, and in our ever-lasting panic of things going wrong, we were there about half an hour early to make sure our train was on the board and we knew exactly where we needed to go. Admittedly, we had gotten there early in the hope of finding breakfast too...but soon realised that would be a rather fruitless search given it was so early on a [View Full Entry]

By leannenufc
July 6th 2008

Wimbledon in Brussels

Europe » Belgium » Brussels-Capital Region » Brussels

A random pretty building!

After our detour to Ghent, it was onto the main destination of the day: Brussels. The train journey was only half an hour, and again very easy. We amused ourselves on the journey by watching two middle-aged women who had apparently never been on a train before and just looked completely out of their depth-the concept of stations, luggage racks and all the general train stuff that you can think of were just completely alien to them! One of them looked like she'd had copious amounts of plastic surgery, so maybe all the botox had messed with her brain...I don't know, [View Full Entry]

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