Category Archives: Belgium

No drugs we’re Christians

Sat, 30 September, 2006 – 9:13 PM MDT

Travelling from Brussels to Waterloo was pretty uneventful. Although Susan was getting a little worried about connections from Waterloo to Paddington for our train onward to Bristol, didn’t seem like 1 hour was enough time for her. Consequently we were threw on our packs grabbed our 2kgs of chocolates and were running towards the eurorail [...]

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No more chocolates

Sat, 30 September, 2006 – 8:57 PM MDT

Last night we arrived in Brussels. First stop chocolate shops!
What we soon realised is every shop owner is awfully kind and dishes out chocolates as you enter to convince you to purchase their coco covered goodies.
Not that I was complaining by the way. We just took it in our stride and munched away…
It wasn’t long [...]

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You don’t pay 4 €’s for a plate and some mayo in New Zealand

Wed, 27 September, 2006 – 6:17 PM MDT

Waking up in Burges we high tailed (or at least waddled along with our packs) to the train station. We narrowly caught the train to Antwerp but ended up there well before lunch. After wondering around the town squares and checking out what must be Belgium’s largest church. We decided to leg it was also [...]

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Beer in Burges

Sun, 24 September, 2006 – 6:17 PM MDT

On Friday night we finally gave up scouring the streets of Burges in search of veggie options. We ended up eating in the main square (called Markt). I figured since I’m in Belgium might as well have a beer.
My thinking and conversation with the waitress went like this:
What would you like to drink?
Might as well [...]

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Getting to Burges

Fri, 22 September, 2006 – 6:17 PM MDT

Work Quiz
Wednesday we went to a work pub quiz. Our team was basically the bank of desks we work in. Susan showed great restrain when our team insisted that Johnny Smiths was the brewer that invented the widget. After our trip to Dublin she knew the correct answer was Guinness. I managed to let our [...]

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