48 Hours Inwards Belgium
To hold out honest, Belgium is frequently overlooked past times Dutch people, myself included. We brand dumb excuses like: 'It's thence unopen to home, it barely feels similar you're on a break'. Dumb, I know, because that unopen proximity genuinely makes it a perfect destination for a brusk urban heart break. Especially if you're nether 26, because the Belgians receive got this amazing thing called the Go Pass 1: a ticket for simply €7,90 from a develop station of selection simply across the edge inwards the Netherlands to whatsoever Belgian urban heart you'd like. Or if you're inwards Belgium, yous tin give notice teach a supply ticket for €12,40 from whatsoever Belgian develop station of your selection to whatsoever other identify inwards Kingdom of Belgium you'd similar to see.
With my Go Pass inwards paw I got on the develop on the 27th of December. About 3 hours subsequently I got off inwards the urban heart of Leuven, met upward amongst Ella at Starbucks together with thence rushed to honor a bath because I absolutely pass upward to purpose the (usually disgusting) restrooms on trains. Good means to start a blogger meet-up, I know.
After my supply together with proper existent life introductions, Ella together with I walked to the urban heart centre of Leuven. It was a brusk walk on which Ella told me a combat most the history of her city. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of it was destroyed inwards the First World War, but it was beautifully restored equally well. Soon nosotros arrived at the urban heart all, which was all the same covered inwards ivy-shaped fairy lights together with had a huge Christmas tree adjacent to it. We could receive got looked at the urban heart hall for hours. The masonry has thence many details that yous tin give notice literally teach featherbrained from staring at it for equally good long (I beak from experience).
While the urban heart centre is stunning amongst its pocket-sized streets together with classic architecture, nosotros didn't pass equally good much fourth dimension taking pictures together with existence bloggers, because nosotros were equally good hungry. Now yous can't become to Kingdom of Belgium without eating some Belgian fries. Not French fries, Belgian fries. Sadly our search for fries ended inwards forepart of closed doors, thence nosotros had Italian crepes instead.
After I'd devoured a crepe amongst white chocolate, Ella together with I continued exploring Leuven. If you've ever read Ella's blog yous know she's practiced at finding interesting places together with knowing all most them. She also had the habitation payoff here.
Our outset halt was the Sint-Donatuspark. Leuven is 1 of the to the lowest degree greenish cities I've seen inwards a while, thence if yous desire to hug some trees this common is the identify to go. You tin give notice also reckon the remnants of the former urban heart walls here, await at a piddling combat of street fine art if yous maintain your eyes opened upward or takes pictures at a huge gazebo amongst the most butt-ugly paradigm of a whale on the dorsum wall that I've ever seen. We genuinely wanted to do the latter to maintain on top of our Instagram game, but ii large packages of sauce together with salad left on the banister took all the focus away from the to a greater extent than aesthetically pleasing aspects of the place. I decided to solve this employment past times ninja-kicking them off the banister, which resulted inwards an ugly mess when the packages combat the Earth together with exploded. We speedily left non equally good long after that piddling incident.
Our adjacent halt was a identify called Groot Begijnhof ('groot' pregnant big, no relation to Guardians of the Milky Way here). It's 1 of those places where nuns used to live. The houses are centuries old, the history of the identify goes equally far dorsum equally the earl 1300s. Nowadays I recollect it's the most Instagrammable identify inwards Leuven. The cobblestones brand walking the streets a combat to a greater extent than difficult, but it also feels similar walking dorsum through time. The whole identify breathes history together with looks amazing. I personally liked it a lot because the pocket-sized doorways made me experience similar a giant. Apart from that the doors are frequently painted inwards odd colors. With holly all the same hanging on some of these forepart doors, walking thought the Begijnhof was similar walking through a Christmas storey from the 1800s.
About lxx pictures later, together with I'm non fifty-fifty exaggerating on that number, nosotros walked dorsum to the urban heart centre together with discussed life, love, loss, blogging together with everything else over brownies. No thing how beautiful a identify is, a trip is non consummate without practiced company, practiced conversation together with practiced food. Luckily Ella together with I had all three. We ended the twenty-four hr menstruum amongst pizza - equally unopen the a perfect twenty-four hr menstruum equally yous tin give notice teach inwards my opinion.
As Leuven is pretty small, let's tell simply large plenty for a twenty-four hr menstruum trip, Ella had the thought to see Liège the adjacent day. Now I'm ever upward for a novel run a peril inwards a novel place, thence I straight off said yep to that plan. We speedily looked some information on nutrient together with sightseeing inwards Liège upward (i.e Ella looked information upward piece I sat adjacent to her, making my means through her manga collection) together with the adjacent forenoon nosotros bought ourselves a Go Pass to Liège Guillemins. I almost roughshod asleep on the train, but my sleepiness was gone the infinitesimal nosotros arrived inwards Liège. It was almost freezing, both within together with exterior the futuristic develop station. By the fourth dimension nosotros were done taking pictures I didn't experience my fingers together with toes anymore. Struggles of existence a blogger, yous know. With the aid of Google Map nosotros walked to the centre of Liège equally fast equally nosotros could thence nosotros could defrost over a practiced repast at Get Your Mug.
Get Your Mug is 1 of those cute piddling places where the nutrient looks together with tastes amazing. My high schoolhouse French was simply most plenty to decipher the menu. I ordered a bagel amongst chicken, honey, mustard together with rocket salad. Then I realized I had no thought how to swallow a bagel, thence I ate it similar a barbarian: amongst rocket salad falling off together with dear dripping downwards my hands. Worth it though.
By the fourth dimension we'd finished our bagels together with hot drinks nosotros had plenty feeling inwards our hands together with feet 1 time to a greater extent than to become out together with brave the cold. Ella decided to purchase some gloves, but I, stubborn Dutch daughter that I am, kept walking some amongst uncovered hands. This was no employment piece nosotros were walking some the Christmas marketplace on the Place Saint-Lambert together with the Espace Tivoli, but when I decided to climb the gigantic staircase that is the Montagne de Bueren I shortly noticed the consummate lack of feeling inwards my hands. The see on top of this step example was good worth it though. The Sun broke through the clouds together with reflected on the H2O of the river Meuse. Liège was beautiful, fifty-fifty though it's streets were killing me.
By the fourth dimension I was downwards on grade Earth 1 time to a greater extent than it had gotten fifty-fifty colder together with nosotros decided to brand our means dorsum to the develop station. This happened amongst a lot of 'Damn it, why is it thence mutual frigidity here?!' from my side. I recollect the summertime inwards Southeast Asia ruined me for colder climates.
At 4pm nosotros took the develop dorsum to Leuven, where Ella together with I speedily said goodbye equally both her rider vehicle together with my develop were most to depart. Then I got on the incorrect develop that ended upward at the correct destination anyway. At Antwerp Central Station I boarded a Dutch develop (which I likely wasn't allowed to do amongst my Belgian Go Pass) together with shortly I was dorsum home. It had been a perfect two-day Belgian break.
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