Blogs from Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium, Europe - page 66

Greetings from Belgium...well to be honest we just arrived in Berlin this evening, but internet has been scarce/keyboards have been warped, so I'll have to start from the beginning. First off there was our flight to London over a week and a half ago. No problems. I had an aisle seat with two empty seats next to me! Unfortunately our in-flight entertainment consisted of Aeon Flux, Bridges of Madison County and everyone's favorite sitcom, Cheers. No thank you. Regardless we arrived in London ahead of schedule and without incident. Our luck continued to our connecting flight, and all was going well. We arrived in Amsterdam just past 9pm, tired but excited to finally get out into the fresh air of the city. We boarded the train to the city and patted ourselves on the back for ... read more

A lovely breakfast at the Hotel (included in the package) looking out across the roof-tops into Grand Place - a nice start to a wonderful day. The continental breakfast with the freshest pastries was divine. Met with Belgian Customs today at the Zaventam Airport. Spend the remainder of the afternoon wondering around Brussels - visited the Cathedral of St Michael & St Gidula. This places is spectacular on the outside and only gets better on the inside. After wandering around today, I’ve started wondering about the Australian attitude towards international visitors. Here in Brussels shop owners seems to have to be able to converse in several languages in order to survive, but how many Australians have ever bothered to try to learn another language to assist international visitors who enter their stores. Isolation as a nation ... read more

From Amsterdam we caught a train through the Netherlands and Belgium to Brussels where we would spend the night before heading back to London for work. Johan and Bea were heading to Paris for three nights, and we were to meet up with Luke and Carmel on their way from Switzerland. As soon as we checked in Luke and Carmel came to meet us, with some valuable possessions they had picked up for us in Lucern. The last time Liani and I were in Switzerland we found these beautiful rings which we bought one another. Only problem was we had to wait until Luke picked them up on his way through Luzern. Needless to say it was nice to recieve them and to see my brother who had been travelling for the previous three weeks. After ... read more

Everybody needs somebody else to love. Shout it out. Shout it out above from heaven. Shout it out, shout it out above from heaven. Needs somebody to love... needs somebody to love... needs somebody to love. Today, at PARTS, a dance outside the box. Beginning in a trash can, moving through piano tunes of crazy love played by Julien, dancing with a Coca-Cola can and the Bush administration's darling Lay's potato chips, and my own multinational clothing... "made in Bangladesh, Egypt, Mexico, Turkey, Bangladesh,...Bangladesh..." into a naked, multicellular What If: "What if my body's cells leap into becoming empty space?" there is finally a score for becoming myself: Luce Irigaray writes, "Keep on going, without getting out of breath. Your body is not the same today as yesterday, your body remembers. There's no need for you ... read more

It's all very sad:( I'm back at work now, feeling most sorry for myself! For some mad reason I came in only 2 hours after landing, and 24 hours of travel is now starting to catch up. But that's boring, time to update on the last few days of my trip... So my last blog was in Playa, which I was (very guiltily!) enjoying as a beachy relax at the end of some relentess travelling. I went to Tulum with Becky, Ines and Julianna. The plan had been to visit the ruins and then so some relaxing on the beach. As luck would have it, it was a blinder of a day, and far to hot to consider climbing ruins! So instead we headed straight for the beach, and what a beach it was! It was ... read more