Blogs from Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium, Europe - page 70

This is my first trip away with Wendy and she took me to Brussels in Belgium. We visited lots of different parts of the city as you can tell by the photos.... read more

We flew from Sweden to Brussels Belgium, NATO headquarters. Once again our plane was full of young soccer players, can we ever get away from them? The airport there is very large and beautiful with all the announcements & signs in 4 languages making everything very easy for us. Once we arrived in Brussels we caught a train to Liege which is about 100 miles south of Brussels and where Cecile lives. Well really we had to catch 2 trains. In Europe there is usually a train station underneath the airports making it very easy for transport to and from the airport. No parking problems there! The airport was so big it took us about 15 minutes to at a fast walk to get from our gate to the train platform, that airport is big! The ... read more

I'm in that pre-trip-planning mode again. You know, the kind that gets me in trouble when fellow travellers complain I'm making all the important decisions, etc., whine, etc. (Never mind they're totally indecisive in the first place...okay, I'll back off.) Before I go back to the States this fall, I want to make one last trip back to England. Think of it as paying homage to all the dead guys (and women) who made Senior year especially enjoyable (honestly!) with AP English Lit. On my list of places to go and do are: --London (see plays--Les Mis and Phantom--as well as go back to the British Museum and see all the things I took for granted last time I was there in 8th grade.) --Oxford (This is a major pilgrimage to a kid who tried to ... read more

Well I finally made to the home town of my bassist Thierry.  Brussels is a rather large workabout city. the most major city is the statue of a little boy pissing called manikin pis.. it's funny i guess that the capital of the EU mascot is a kid uninating. But yeah had fun nite out on the bars in Brussels.  And now i'm in antwerp.... read more

9 April 2004 Friday. We slept in and after a wonderful breakfast at the Holiday Inn restaurant. I had forgotten to call my credit card companies to tell them I would be in Europe, and by now was on my last card; the others having been cancelled. I called Linda to have her call the companies and tell them where I was and to reactivated the cards. She was well aware that the cards had been cancelled as she tried to pay for groceries and the cards were not accepted. We hit the road about 10 am, taking the autoroute north to Belgium. We arrived at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) near Mons about noon and told the guards that we needed to go to the hospital, so that the kids could see where ... read more