 | Brussels and Maastricht
2009-08-05, brussels, Belgium. By: joneses | | 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 ... |
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 | Wasted day...
2006-07-23, Brussels, Belgium. By: sleepy | | 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 Dubli... |
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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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 | 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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 | 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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| 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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| A Bills fan and Brussels
2007-01-14, Brussels, Belgium. By: bbmk0001 | | Our roommate left on Friday morning for Chicago. He said he had a will reading to attend and would be back on Monday morning. However, he took all of his stuff with him, including two huge suitcases... |
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 | on the liege train station
2006-07-17, brussels, Belgium. By: bolioboy | | after checking out i went to central station and bought a ticket to dortmund. then i went to the grand place (main square) to see the most gorgeous open space in belgium, i really loved the hotel d'v... |
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 | On brussels and Art noveau
2006-07-16, brussels, Belgium. By: bolioboy | | up early i walked down rue royal towards the palace and museum quarter. first i stopped into the old england building that despite its name is a beautiful art noveau building that now houses the muse... |
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 | England tomorrow
2006-05-25, Brussels, Belgium. By: hazel70 | | Well we had a nice and unusual day, we were on train between station in Brussels where nobody seems to care who ride the train as nobody ever check our ticket either coming or going.The weather finall... |
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| 2nd time
2006-05-24, Brussels, Belgium. By: hazel70 | | Lost the first time, this is my second attend today at this, we have arrive in Brussels, we are living in a tourist area call The Grand Place it is very pretty and also very old with many ancient bui... |
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 | 05/09 Landing in Europe
2006-05-09, Brussels, Belgium. By: drewby | | What a day! I can't even describe in words how amazing it was. As I was landing in Amsterdam I had a laugh about how much American influence was stamped onto the country. The first landform I saw in... |
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 | Leaving Belgium in the AM
2006-04-16, Brussels, Belgium. By: dhazel | | Hello to everyone,
The last few days have been fairly busy but today I had to force myself to get going due to feeling a bit under the weather. I am glad I did though because I saw several sites th... |
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 | Liking Brussels so far
2006-04-14, Brussels, Belgium. By: dhazel | | Well, The train trip went by so fast. I forgot to ask how fast we were actually going at the fastest point. My hotel really is just across from the Central Station. I didn't realize that my Eurostar t... |
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 | Brussels Sprouts and Strasbourg
2005-04-10, Brussels, Belgium. By: chefortune | | In mid April, I headed back to the continent once again, to reunite with the rest of the DG Press Representation Stagiaires for a weeklong seminar on the workings of DG Press and a trip to Strasbourg ... |
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 | Wet and cold
2004-10-02, Brussels, Belgium. By: hsgautama | | I was visit Brussel mid January 2006 in wet and cold seasson. A bit windy, makes my nose a bit hurt.
We stay at Conrad hotel and from there visit some interesting spot arround the town. We comming ... |
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 | Parliament Today
2005-10-26, Brussels, Belgium. By: meinleuven | | I am currently at work in the European Parliament, and there is quite a bit of drama going on here today. The press is all pissed off at us, we are pissed off at the press, and certain of us are piss... |
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 | Day 13: Brussels to London
2005-08-02, Brussels, Belgium. By: wanderings | | Agenda:
- Goodbye, Netherlands!
- Waffles and chocolates in Belgium
- Mannekin Pis
- Eurostar to London
- London at night
Early in the morning I reluctlantly left the Netherlands and we head... |
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 | I still dont like chocolate
2005-06-26, Brussels, Belgium. By: j2dewar | | Please ignore all spelling ,istakes as these crazy Europeans keep having differnt keyboards!!!
Okay so yesterday was a lot of fun. After breakfast we headed out to the Van Gogh museum but on our wa... |
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 | wine,waffels and relaxing ...
2005-05-13, Brussels, Belgium. By: margrete | | From 13 - 16of May Jostein and I went to Brussels just to relaxe...
Stayed at Sheraton Towers in the historical part of the town. Realy nice hotel... Eating superb fishfood, drinking Chabli and takin... |
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 | The world of chocolate, waffles, moules and frites!
2005-04-07, Brussels, Belgium. By: wts | | Hi again, our second trip in Europe! Just love how everything is within a few hours from London. Don’t understand how the Brits cannot have travelled everywhere in Europe already, it’s absolutely fant... |
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 | Brussels - The Five minute tour
2005-04-27, Brussels, Belgium. By: haytonsj | | We arrived in Brussels this afternoon from Amsterdam. Now, some of you might be asking "Scott, why are you leaving such a nice place for such a crappy place?" and I can see where you are coming from.... |
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 | The rest of the flight
2004-12-19, Brussels, Belgium. By: myduchess | | The rest of the flight was uneventful. We were too tired to bother with the in-flight movie, and we quietly kept to ourselves on the flight.
I was seated next to this girl who kept creeping over in... |
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 | The Bell Tolls in Brussels
2004-08-18, Brussels, Belgium. By: Liza_Beall | | My first work trip was to Belgium. An early morning start – 4:00 am to be picked up for the flight at 6:30am to be in the meeting by 10am, was the beginning of my journey. Once the plane took off, 45... |
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 | And then in the mornin', we'll make waffles
2004-09-13, Brussels, Belgium. By: dilleybug | | okay okay, Belgian Waffles are THE BEST THING EVER! they sell them on the street corners like ice cream. and they have little packets of brown sugar baked inside of them. oh lordy im going to be a mil... |
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| lace, waffles, chocolate, peeing boy
2004-06-16, Brussels, Belgium. By: cstclai | | Belgium may be characterized by their lace, waffles, chocolate, and statue of the peeing boy, and surprisingly these aren't unfair stereotypes. I don't know if they are trying to capitalize on these ... |
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 | The Collective Sigh
2003-08-26, Brussels, Belgium. By: celind73 | | Brussels is a quite nice city. Nice buildings, lots of sights, lots of institutions. Some famous monuments and statues scattered over the city for tourists. Grand Place with surrounding buildings is q... |
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| The Little Ruler Of Europe
2003-08-23, Brussels, Belgium. By: celind73 | | Grand Place is indeed grand. The main square of Brussels is surrounded by very old, very nice buildings. My two friends - both ladies - want me to get back safely to the hostal. They therefore point o... |
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 | brussels weekend
2000-09-01, brussels, Belgium. By: lomotravel | | from the airport the train ride takes approximately 15 minutes and drops you off at Gare Midi, right in the heart of Brussels. We walked straight out the station, down a slightly winding road, made a ... |
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 | On the way!!!
2001-09-16, Brussels, Belgium. By: dan | | Yippee! In spite of the British transport system's many attempts to prevent me from exiting the country, I have escaped! I laugh in the face of trifling opposition such as faulty chunnels and broken d... |
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