Tuesday, 1 Dec 2009 | Views [838]
We said goodbye to Jeff and Magda on the morning of Day 3 and checked out of Het Singelhuis. Magda drove us to the train station, and we took a train to Ghent. Or Gent. It's cool both ways. The problem with Ghent is, the thing I remember most about ... Read more >
Tags: belgium, ghent
Sunday, 15 Nov 2009 | Views [2833]
Ypres was kind of a mistake. Well the whole day was full of mistakes. I decided to squeeze a day trip to Ypres into our schedule at the last minute, and it seemed to me that out of the 14 days we had, Day 2 was the only one that could be spared for this ... Read more >
Tags: antwerp, belgium, in flanders field, trains, world war i, ypres
Thursday, 12 Nov 2009 | Views [908]
We met the nicest people in Antwerp - the nicest people we met on the entire trip, and the nicest people we've met on any trip. When we arrived in Antwerp, we were flush with newly exchanged Euros, but all of our money was in notes, and we had to have ... Read more >
Tags: antwerp, belgium
Monday, 28 Sep 2009 | Views [2930] | Comments [2]
This is our itinerary for the trip: Fri 16th Oct : Depart from Singapore to Amsterdam on Malaysian Airlines, with a 1-hour stopover in Kuala Lumpur. Sat 17th Oct : Arrival in Schiphol, Amsterdam. We'll immediately take an InterCity train to ... Read more >
Tags: belgium, holland, itinerary
