Brussels Travel Blogs

I had been out playing golf most of the morning in Brabrantse golf club and we had wonderful weather all morning and I was already looking forward to meet my friends Babs and Maxime for lunch after my brief stop at the 19th hole with my friend David. I went back to my apartment after golf and cal…

A few weeks ago we came up with the idea to suprise mandy when she comes back in europe with a meetup on her birthday. A lot of travbuddys where involved in this secret. Not one of us could talk normal on TB, because mandy was not allowed to sence anything of our secret. So only talking on pm and t…

A few weeks ago I was talking with Gejah about not having a meet-up in May. She said then, why not having a meet-up in Brussel with a few TB's on may 9th? Because then is Mandy coming back from New Zealand and it will be her 20th birthday. But it must absolute be a secret for Mandy. So not creating…

Before 9 May, Gejah told me she is preparing a surprise birthday celebration meetup for Mandy when Mandy arrives in Brussels after her long vacation in Aussy and NZ. So we have to communicate under "PM" - private message.On the day, 9th May, we were all ready for this special meetup event;) We had …

My last evening in Bruxelles - went for a walk around town. I was very particular that I capture Grote Markt in all its night glory. Here it is.... :-)

This weekend is Brussels Monument Weekend, where every monument in Brussels becomes open to the public. We had plans to use the weekend to see some of the more inaccessable monuments in Brussels, but in the end we only visited the most (to us) accessable - the beautiful Hallepoort that we gaze at …

I had to go back to Brussels, before going to Holland. Why? Well, my big bag was storaged there for the last couple of days, hehehe. I picked it up and went to look for the next train to Roosendal. There were one right away, so I didn't have to wait long. In Roosendal, made a connection and to…

**Manneken Pis Dutch for little pee man, also known in French as the Petit Julien, in the Florida Cracker Vernacular-Bubba the Pee Boy is a very famous Brussels landmark & a “WEE Gotta SEE  Manneken Pis PEE” on the Planes Trains & Automobiles 2009 OSB & TUGA’s European Vacati…

Whooohooo I was so excited today! That is because tonight I was finally to meet May (Tazmania), the cool girl from Thailand :) I haven't slept that well the night before because I was so nervous for my first ever TB meet up! Always I was counting down thinking about the meet, wondering if May could…

There has to be a blog entry about a metro since i'm a metro-freak:DThe metro in Bruxelles has some cute and somu awful places. Some people call it the strangest metro in Europe, cuz at certain points the stations are so close that u can see another one from the platform waiting for your train. The…

This is my third meetup that i am attending overseas and I couldn't go there and back without having issues with my flights haha... In JFK I encountered something I have never heard of before, and didn't think was even possible... but nothing is impossible when you are talking about Delta Airlines.…

I wak up around 4 am to get ready to take the train to 'charleroi.' I went to airport around 6 am, to pick up Javier. We had been talking for over 6 mnts and was so nervos to see him, but not so nervos as I expectd. I talkd with 'sameer', becaus he has been followng this for months. He is…

On my way to Rue Haute I also walk across some parts of the central area. I won't call it the "center" because I never walk near the Cathedral or the Grand Place, but it is the direct surrounding of the central station, so... it's close.Funny enough I like the shoddy "Marollen" more than this busin…

Just before New Year last year Bill wrote to me that he was coming to Brussels and asked if we could go for a beer one day, probably shortly after New Year. I was naturally okay with the idea and just waited for the call when he arrived. When he called he was together with Eric another TB. We agre…

The Royal Greenhouses of Laeken (in Dutch: Koninklijke Serres van Laken), are a vast complex of monumental heated greenhouses in the park of the Royal Castle of Laeken in Brussels. The complex was commissioned by King Leopold II of Belgium and designed by architect Alphonse Balat. Built between 187…