Brussels Stories


Brussels and Maastricht

On Wednesday 5th August, we drove to the very pretty town Ypres in Belgium. It was totally flattened during WWI and has been rebuilt using plans and photographs of the original buildings. We went to the Menin Gates, which have the names of nearly 59,000 allied soldiers from WWI who fought in Belgium, but whose bodies were never identified. One of the c...


Wasted day...

Following a wasted first year in college, myself and 5 frinds decided to go inter-railing around europe. We started in Brussels, by virtue of it being the cheapest place in europe to fly to from Dublin. As none of our party had any desire to see belgium, we were using this as a port to amsterdam... We flew to Charleroi airport, which was in the middl...


Back to UK

The train back to London was due to leave Brussels Midi at about 10am, so after sorting out the bags etc we headed downstairs for a good breakfast. Once we were full and we had collected our luggage we checked out of the hotel and headed across the road to the station. The check-in did not open until 8.30am so there were a few minutes to gather though...


Brussels day 2

The forecast for Brussels on the Friday was for rain to sweep in, but as we headed down for breakfast the sun was shining. The breakfast was what we come to expect from continental hotel snow, so we were well fed with a variety of fruit juices, hot and cold choices of food and as much tea or coffee and you could want. But with rain not far away it was...