Provincie )) (( Brabant Travel and Tourism Guide

After a most hearty and excellent breakfast at the hotel, Lesley and I took ourselves off to one of Brussels' three main train stations and hopped on the first departure for Brugge. Again, we couldn't really figure out the ticketing system, so we just got on board and figured we'd pay the conductor the €12 during the journey (turned out we didn't have to as no one came around to check). The trip itself was a pleasant enough 50 mins or so and we were soon in Brugge, following the crowds (and...

Diest is a small city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. It's about 35 minutes from Brussels and you can get there easily by train or bus. It has about 20000 inhabitants and has more monuments per square kilometer than any other Belgian city. It is a historic town with a lot of ancient buildings. For instance, the beguinage, is one of the monuments on the World Heritage List of the UNESCO. The little houses were built in the 17th and 18th century and the chur...

this city is soo sweet. It seemed to be that the time stopped here.   It looks like a fairy tale old city. Right now I was in the train in my way to Brugge. I have heard so many nice things about that city that I HAVE TO visit it. Because once I took the wrong train, I decided to make sure and ask a guy if this one was the right train. The man was Irish and noticed I wasn’t local – not difficult to see, hahaha. He asked me where I was from, when I said Peru, he became even friendlie...

I have now been working almost 2 years in the lovely city of Brussels. The last 6 month I have also had the fortune of living here full time. I have become to understand why expats dont wanna leave again. I have also had the possibility to visit a lot of the major cities in the middle of Europe because Brussels is so close to all of them - it is just do it.