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Thursday
12 March |
12:27 |
Depart: London, Waterloo International |
| 16:10 |
Arrive: Brussels Midi |
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Afternoon |
Check-in to Hotel.
Walk: Bourse - Grand Place - Mont des Arts - Place Royale - Petit Sablon - Palais de Justice/Place Poelaert (great view over Brussels) - Grand Sablon - Grand Place; Pause for beer at the "Golden Boot". |
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Evening |
Grand Place; dinner at the "Auberge des Chapeliers"; night-time orientation (a bit of a Deptford Lads tradition now); beer at "Fin de Siecle". |
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Friday
13 March |
Morning |
Breakfast at "La Pompe"
Visit les Musées de Beaux Arts:- New Magritte retrospective; Bruegel paintings; and Modern Art gallery |
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Afternoon |
Walk to Quartier Leopold (place du Luxembourg); coffee; photograph interesting hoardings outside station; new European Parliament complex (very "Canary Wharf")
Bus to Bourse; beer at "Falstaff". |
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Evening |
Dinner at "NeosCosmos"
Sample gay nightlife ("Le Belgica" and "Le Duquesnoy") |
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Saturday
14 March |
Morning |
Metro to Heysel; Visit The Atomium (as naff as ever!); Cybercafe "Po-Boy". |
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Afternoon |
Comic Strip Museum (which also happens to be housed in a rather excellently restored Horta building); Coffee and chocolate waffles <grin> |
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Evening |
Dinner at "La Kasbah" (Moroccan)
Beer at "The Greenwich" |
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Sunday
15 March |
Morning |
Tram trip through the forest to Tervuren; Andrew's old school; Africa Museum and Zimbabwe exhibition; Tervuren Park. |
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Afternoon |
Euro quarter (again), including the bizzarely shrouded Berlaymont building; Natural History museum and the famous Iguanadon fossils. |
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Evening |
Dinner at "Bonsoir Clara".
Beer at "L'Archiduc". |
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Monday
16 March |
Morning |
Drop-off bags at Midi station.
Shopping! |
| Afternoon |
Beer shop "Bieres Artisanales"
"Cybertheatre" internet café |
| 18:59 |
Depart: Brussels Midi |
| 20:43 |
Arrive: London Waterloo International |
