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By Crance
September 5th 2008

Day 2 Brugge - Ciney

Europe » Belgium » Brussels-Capital Region » Brussels

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]

By Crance
September 5th 2008

Day 3 Achene - Luxembourg

Europe » Belgium » Luxembourg

Luxembourg..

RIP Mitch After a rough night in the car it looked like the garage had finally opened as someone pulled in.. We scrambled ourselves together and knocked on the door (also forgot to mention noone in either town spoke english), a woman answered and after a few minutes we got the impression the garage had shut down a LONG time ago.. She directed us to a breakdown service who after realising we had no cover kind of started ignoring us, but we did get an address for a Misubishi garage in Ciney.. So back to Ciney we rolled.. We eventually found [View Full Entry]

By Kat Larsen
September 3rd 2008

Bruges

Europe » Belgium » West Flanders » Bruges

The view from the Bell Fort

We caught the bus to Bruges, once we arrived it didn't take us long at all to love it. Dale said it looked cool and I thought it was beautiful. It was like we stepped though a time zone and arrived back in medieval times. One of the best things was that they had great beer and chocolate, which in the first few hours there we managed to sample. It was a great place to wonder around - we did sights like the Bell Fort with 366 steps to the top we really worked off all the chocolate we had devoured. [View Full Entry]

By PeteB
September 2nd 2008

Leaving and 1st Day

Europe » Belgium » West Flanders » Bruges

On the Ferry
Me and Charlotte : )

Well, i thought i'd try and give a quick update even though we've only been gone for one day! Firstly, Belgians seem happy to re-arrange the letters on a keyboard so it's like having to learn how to type all over again! We left for Dover in the early hours yesterday morning, arriving at Nancy's at around 6.30am (thanks Dad for the lift!) and were soon on our way. Within half an hour we had to pull over on the M20 as the roofrack sounded like it may fall apart, but the problem was quickly solved and before long we got [View Full Entry]

By becca
August 31st 2008

2 WEEKS almost

Europe » Belgium » Hainaut » Charleroi

hello everyone, Yesterday and today were the first hot days ive had in belgium, ive been taking advantage of it today and did a little sun tanning which was relaxing. Today is the first day where i have done absloutely nothing which is good for me cuz ive been busy for a while. Yesterday was the welcome meeting for all exchange people in my district, its was pretty boring but after i got to talk to all the exchange people ang got lots of numbers so we can organize things to do together. I found out that my host club is [View Full Entry]

By pete tree
August 30th 2008

Chips or French Fries- the answer REVEALED!!!

Europe » Belgium » Brussels-Capital Region » Brussels

Flemish fries
what else woud you eat in the home of fries

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]

By Normandy Nights
August 30th 2008

In Search of Colin Farrell

Europe » Belgium » Brussels-Capital Region » Brussels

Brussels Noord
Here comes the train to Brugge

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]

By Normandy Nights
August 29th 2008

The Home of Beer and Chocolate and Sprouts?

Europe » Belgium » Brussels-Capital Region » Brussels

The View from our Hotel
Charming square, just off rue Joseph Plateau. Beautiful spire to the right of the picture

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]

By DanMons
August 28th 2008

26th Aug - La Roche en Ardenne

Europe » Belgium » Luxembourg » La Roche-en-Ardenne

Ferris Wheel
We wanted to go on this the previous night - but yeah, the parking is a bit of a nightmare to say the least!

Howdy from Belgium this time. Today I didn’t see any Ferraris so no Ferrari photos for you. You will just have to be happy with my usual buildings and scenery pictures. Sorry. This morning after I finally managed to coax Monique out of bed by dismantling the tent around her, (she has gotten her hands on a book) we had a bit of a wander around Luxemburg city. We managed to find a car park along a one way street which I reversed the entire way up to get to. We were looking for parking buildings previously but that wasn’t working [View Full Entry]

La Roche...the hotel at our camping ground

By Mandaz
August 28th 2008

Brussels - day two

Europe » Belgium » Brussels-Capital Region » Brussels

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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