Brussels

  • belgium in pictures: waffles, beer and tintin

    we split our 1 week in belgium across brussels and bruges. did a bike ride daytrip across the imaginary border to the netherlands in the town of sluis and another daytrip to the herge museum since i’ve been a tintin…

  • our homes away from home: the europe edition

    and as a follow-up to the asia accomodation recap, here is our recap from our european airbnb and hotels: barcelona: cost/night/person (in cad): $45 the thing that rocked: nothing.  we couldn’t wait to get out of there. the thing that…

  • brussels aka the land of comic strips

    prior to visiting the tintin museum we also stopped by the comicstrip museum in brussels.  it has a section devoted to tintin but also touches on many other belgian based characters, the smurfs taking another section for themselves. it was…

  • a daytrip to musee herge: a must for all tintin fans

    i don’t know how many museums we had been to by this point in our trip but that didnt stop me from planning out a day to visit musee herge once we got into brussels.  on our previous trip to…

  • dieting in belgium: waffles, chocolates and fries

    what brought us to belgium?  well for starters, the food… i thought i knew so much about junk food but my years of eating like crap taught me nothing. waffles – maybe the most famously linked food to the belgians…

  • getting our tourist on in brussels

    while we passed many hours in brussels stuffing our faces with things that made us smile we also squeezed in some sightseeing.   i had my eyes set on musee herge otherwise known as the tintin museum 🙂  the creator of…

  • my first souvenir of the trip

    i was able to almost get through asia and europe without buying anything as a keepsake until we hit belgium and i just couldn’t resist leaving without a trinket to commemerate our trip to the tintin museum tourist mode.  engaged.

  • weekly recap #26 – brussels, burges & lille

    I q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. brussels (sablon, airbnb, 2 nights), bruges (markt, hotel, 3 nights), lille (vieux-lille, airbnb, 3 nights) q. favourite meal a. ‘one restaurant’ in bruges.  the owner recommended the flemish…

  • weekly recap #25 – riga & brussels

    q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. riga (centrs, 5 nights), brussels (sablon, 3 nights) q. favourite meal a. toss up.  either domini canes in riga for its presentation and otherwordly lavender & berries creme brulee…

  • first 24 hours in brussels (belgium)

    jojo: what do i like? -comics, cartoons and street murals all wrapped into one -back amongst the french which means the pain au chocolat diet is back in effect.  booyah. -love the old architecture.  i know i’m being hypocritical because…