 | Greeting from Bruges
2008-06-03, Bruges, Belgium. By: miohara11 | | We arrived after the longest day of travel in bruges in the middle of a rain storm, seems to be the theme of my trip. We are staying at a little inn with the nicest lady that has given some really go... |
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 | Back to UK
2008-03-29, Brussels, Belgium. By: alan54to60 | | 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 ... |
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 | Brussels day 2
2008-03-28, Brussels, Belgium. By: alan54to60 | | 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 ... |
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 | Brussels day 1
2008-03-27, Brussels, Belgium. By: alan54to60 | | We arrived at St. Pancras station in London about 1pm on Thursday March 27th, excited at the thought of travelling on the Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel. This being the first time we were ... |
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 | Quick update!!
2008-03-23, Leuven, Belgium. By: stephz1826 | | Hmm I believe the last time I updated this was the on the same date of last month, something I did not mean at all to happen buuut there it is ha. I'm sorry all these summaries are so mismanaged...but... |
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| Through Hell and Back (Continued)
2008-02-23, Leuven, Belgium. By: stephz1826 | | So I've been given a small bit of encouragement to "keep it coming" so here goes (now I will actually try to be brief haha)...
Vienna: So, after an hour and a half of sleep, I woke up to leave for ... |
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| Through Hell and Back...
2008-02-21, Leuven, Belgium. By: stephz1826 | | Ok so exams were pretty terrible, but I survived, and doing 5 cities in 14 days was an insane adventure, but I survived, so the dramatic title for this entry is more for effect than anything. Where to... |
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| So the last in a while....
2007-12-19, Leuven, Belgium. By: stephz1826 | | So just a small update on life in Leuven and the countdown until Americaland. Since I last wrote, I don't think I've done very much haha. Partially because I have had actual work to do (i.e. papers), ... |
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 | Venice Of The North
2007-12-10, Bruges, Belgium. By: mala | | We continued our canal tour of Europe with Bruges, nicknamed Venice of the North. Well, Venice was pretty fresh in our memories so we'd be the judge of that lofty claim.
Each city is full of chara... |
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| A little Christmas update...
2007-12-09, Leuven, Belgium. By: stephz1826 | | Hey everyone! I know it's been a while, but things have been a little crazy around here, as it always is when the holidays come around. My five weeks of travel was amazing and exhausting and I'm sorry... |
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 | Don't Make Me Run, I'm All Full of Chocolate!
2007-12-02, Brugges, Belgium. By: kates08 | | "There's a bus that comes in 2 minutes" Martin informs me as we walk out the door of our Eastern Avenue house at 6:ooam. "That's perfect" I yawn and take out my handy Oyster Card that allows me to ge... |
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 | Copulsory halt in Brussel
2007-11-10, Brussel, Belgium. By: krapulax | | When we came from Oostende to Germany we have a wrecked in a highway near Hansbeke. My car is totaly. But we alive. My Saab was proteckted us. We thinked, and then went to Brussel. Brussel is capital ... |
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| Across the English Channel with ferry
2007-11-09, Oostende, Belgium. By: krapulax | | We are across the Chanel with ferry, from Oostende to Ramsgate and back.
Oostende is beautifull city. I have a place in my heart. One of my favorite places. Nice, very clean, very friendly like my ... |
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 | Antwerp Antwerpen Things to do, The Zoo!
2007-08-26, Antwerp, Belgium. By: rmalone | | Antwerp Antwerpen Things to do, The Market and The Zoo!
What could be more fun on a Saturday with our wonderful guide, Andre and his lovely wife Lilly than to go for a walk around the city to the out... |
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 | Ghent , Belgium -- Beautiful Historic City
2007-08-27, Ghent, Belgium. By: rmalone | | Before we came to visit Andre and Lily in Belgium, Paris was our hands down favorite city. Now its not so clear.....
Ghent and Brugge also have that old world charm and history. Since we did not... |
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| Leuven/Gent/Maastricht
2007-10-23, Leuven, Belgium. By: stephz1826 | | Hey everyone! So just a little update to talk about what's been going on in the past week...
Well all the usual stuff, reading, hanging out, grocery shopping, belly dancing classes at Pangaea star... |
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| Fall in Leuven
2007-10-16, Leuven, Belgium. By: stephz1826 | | So while I think this "settling in" process takes more than a month, maybe even two, something like sublime comfort has moved in as well. I've been doing more exploring-cafes, fach bars (cheap beer, ... |
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| Classes/Birthdays/Brussels!
2007-10-01, Leuven, Belgium. By: stephz1826 | | Sooo I have officially completed my first week of classes, and it feels like it took forever! Monday was the opening of the academic year, which basically means the professors of the university parade... |
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| So it's been a while...
2007-09-23, Leuven, Belgium. By: stephz1826 | | Hello hello! Well I haven't typed out an entry in about 2 weeks, mostly because my computer was in the KU Leuven PC shop for 6 days. Yep, it crashed, which I sort of expected but was still upset about... |
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 | Belgium Beautiful: Brugge
2007-08-24, Brugge, Belgium. By: rmalone | | Thanks, Andre! Belguim, Beautiful Brugge
Andre is back in Belguim after several years absence and is enjoying playing the part of the tour guide, exploring places he hasn't been to in years. We ... |
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| Back from France!
2007-09-10, Leuven, Belgium. By: stephz1826 | | So I'm really not mentally prepared to write about our trip to France last week, but I guess I should just throw myself in and whatever comes out will have to do. If you wanna hear the whole story, yo... |
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| Fries with Mayo really isn't THAT bad....
2007-08-30, LEUVEN, Belgium. By: stephz1826 | | So it's my third day in Leuven and I'm having a wonderful, wonderful time! I don't think I can convincingly describe how incredible even the past few days have been, and all the things I'm excited for... |
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 | Detailing the Devil
2007-08-06, Brussels, Belgium. By: travelkris | | The cliché is true. The devil is in the details. And it turns out one very important detail when traveling by train to an airport is that you take a train to the RIGHT airport. The wrong one, as it... |
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 | Who knew? Belgians are fun!
2007-07-19, Brussels, Belgium. By: lhovland | | So after going to bed super early last night, Allie and I got up early so that we could enjoy our new found Belgian patriotism. We had some waffles and then went to the European Union buildings and s... |
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 | Belgian Waffles!!
2007-07-19, Brussels, Belgium. By: lhovland | | Hey everyone, it was great to hear from you all on the message board! Keep them coming cuz I miss all of you! So when I thought of Belgium before I came here I just pictured a lot of people walking ... |
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 | Week in Brussels
2007-07-03, Brussels, Belgium. By: kkulbis | | Tuesday, July 3
Today was the first day of my week in Brussels, Belgium. My program at Audencia coordinated the study tour of Brussels and all 75 students are staying at a hotel for the week while... |
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 | Chocolate, Chocolate & more Chocolate
2007-06-10, Brugge, Belgium. By: kirmish | | Brugge was to be a short stop on our way back to London so we didn't have a great deal of time.
However in the time that we had we managed to eat loads and see lots of great stuff.
Our first sto... |
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 | Beer, beer & more beer
2007-05-22, Bruge,antwerp, & brussels, Belgium. By: samkateb | | We spent a about 5 nights in Belgium (visiting Brugge, Ghent, Brussel &Antwerpen). Higlights were definitely Brugge & anterwerpen.
Also saw a bread ATM in Brugge? Camping was pretty good in Belgium... |
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 | One more entry...then it's time to go home.
2007-04-12, Leuven, Belgium. By: bbmk0001 | | Well, seeing as I haven’t written anything on here since spring break and since I’m coming home in roughly 48 hours, I thought I’d update this. Not much has happened in terms of traveling since my br... |
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 | The Land of Chocolate, Waffles, and Beer
2007-03-07, Antwerp, Belgium. By: adubowec | | First off, I wanted to apologize - I realize it's been a while since I made an entry on my blog. But I've been quite busy with travel and school work........now it's time to start it up again though.
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 | Odd day in Binche and spring break plans
2007-02-24, Binche, Belgium. By: bbmk0001 | | On my walk back to the Institute from the train station, I ran into Bridget, Alex, Matt, and Claude, who invited me to go with them to Binche. I found out the only reason I was invited was because I ... |
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| It's the day of the Holy War
2007-02-06, Brussels, Belgium. By: bbmk0001 | | I'm bored at work with nothing to do and a supervisor who is not currently supervising me, so I thought I'd update this thing. Sunday night was the Superbowl as any red blooded American male should a... |
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 | Day trip to Waterloo
2007-02-02, Waterloo, Belgium. By: bbmk0001 | | It’s not raining! I repeat, it’s not raining in Leuven. The sun is shining brightly for the first time since we’ve been here. It is 50 degrees and I can walk around in shorts and a t-shirt. Sorry ... |
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| The Imperial Legislature Lives!!!
2007-01-31, Leuven, Belgium. By: bbmk0001 | | I wasn’t going to write today, but after the show put on by the EP this afternoon, I felt obliged to vent a little. Work went well again today. I still don’t have a computer, but at least I can use ... |
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| First day of work
2007-01-30, Brussels, Belgium. By: bbmk0001 | | Well, I started work today. I got up bright and early, after dreaming that I slept through my alarm and having a heart attack when I woke up. This dream actually occurred 40 minutes before my alarm ... |
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| Unemployed no longer
2007-01-24, Brussels, Belgium. By: bbmk0001 | | After two weeks of unemployment I was kind of getting bored with having nothing to do on Tuesday and Wednesday. We already have nothing on Friday, so doing nothing five out of the seven days a week m... |
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| Brugge: a religious experience
2007-01-17, Brugge, Belgium. By: bbmk0001 | | We went to Brugge yesterday with the guys from Catholic University. On Monday night we said we would all meet at the train station for the 9:30 train. Alex and I went to buy tickets, but no one else... |
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