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Advantages: easy to get to, the Grand Place Disadvantages: Mannakin Pis is dissapointing, takcy tourist shops
Question
What does one do when you want to celebrate finishing the taught part of a Masters degree and want to go away but are so broke even the cheapest trip to Spain is not an option?
Answer.
Book a very cheap flight for a mini break to Brussels the capital of Belgium. I did this in June 2003 and I had a great time.
I flew with Ryanair from John Lennon airport in Liverpool to Charleroi airport in Brussels. Or so I thought it was in Brussels. It was near enough an hour from the airport to Midi railway station. The connecting bus is a rip off at 10 euros. Since there were four of us on the way there we took a taxi that cost us 35 euros. The airfare was really cheap. It only cost £20 for a return fare including all taxes.
Due to the European Parliament Brussels has cheap hotels at the weekend instead of during mid week. We were ...
duskmaiden 27.06.2003 (30.08.2009)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Brussels (Belgium)
Advantages: Nice looking dining room Disadvantages: Just about everything else
Fin de Siecle is located on Brussels' famous Avenue Louise and looks very grand from the outside. It's a beautiful old building with high ceilings and you enter into a great looking lobby with some spectacular theatre-style curtains made from luxurious fabric. On the table in the corridor is a visitors' book signed by the king and queen of Belgium and the restaurant wants to make sure you know that they have friends in high places.
Passing into the main dining room, you are confronted by the bar directly in front and then the dining area runs the depth of the building before high doors open onto the garden terrace - or at least they would if we hadn't turned up in the middle of an October downpour. The restaurant is a visual feast of old original features, gorgeous plaster work on the ceilings, old paintings and more lovely floor to ...
Advantages: Stunning architecture and lots of lovely different beers and chocolates Disadvantages: Not a huge amount of well known attractions
laid out over eight floors and contains art and sculpture from throughout the centuries with works by Rubens, Picasso and Dali to name but a few. Entry is around ?5.00. The Cartoon Strip Museum (Centre Belge de la Bande Desinée) is another interesting venue, with lots of examples of the Belgian comic strip Tintin, as well as others. Entry to this museum is ?6.25.
***GETTING AROUND BRUSSELS***
There is a huge and wide-spread network of public transport made up of trams, buses and metro. You can buy tickets from the driver of the tram or the bus, or from booths in the underground metro stations. Trams, buses and the metro are all extremely frequent, the city network coverage is superb and they are simple and easy to use. The same ticket (costing ?1.50) can be used during one hour on any of the buses, trams or metro. You can also buy ...
Bollinger28 21.08.2005 (26.08.2005)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Brussels in general
