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  1. Manneken Pis in Belgium

    Blog: Atlas Parasite - 22 September 2009

    Get ready for the biggest disappointment when it comes to landmark sightseeing, at least that’s what everyone says. The Manneken Pis is the symbol of Belgium, rating higher than the Atomium, and a must-see when you go to Brussels for the first time. I mean even when you arrive at the airport you get bombarded [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)

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  2. Bye bye Belgium

    Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 3 August 2009

    So ‘A Clockwork Orange’, good but not amazing I’d say. How much does Stanley Kubrick like breasts!?! I’m finally on my way to Luxembourg, though I’ve got a much later train than I intended as it took me ages to sort out the hostel booking for tomorrow in Cologne. This means I’m not going to get [...]

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  3. The Hangover

    Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 2 August 2009

    God I love my iPhone. I woke up at 13:00 with a rather nasty hangover so I decided to put off going to Luxembourg until tomorrow. I checked the email confirmation for the hostel phone number, saved it and then fired up Skype, 30 seconds later the bed for tonight was cancelled. Just like in [...]

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  4. Flanders finished

    Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 1 August 2009

    We are on our way to Gent now, all be it a little slower than we intended as we’ve got on the train that goes all around the houses and doubles the travel time (still only to an hour mind). Well Gent was okay, but a little dull really. It had some pretty bits very much [...]

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  5. Wafflin’ on

    Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 31 July 2009

    Currently I’m enjoying a cold and refreshing glass of Jupiler with the Antwerp sunshine cast over me. Not a bad way to spend half an hour. The city seems pretty cool, again it’s quite pretty but there seems to be a fair bit going on too. Cathedral of Our Lady was the only landmark I took in [...]

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  6. Mussels from Brussels

    Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 30 July 2009

    I watched ‘In The Name of The Father’ last night which I thought was excellent but was dissapointed when I done a fair bit of reading afterwards and discovered that half of it was fabricated. This spoiled it somewhat for me as some subjects are too important to have daft amounts of Hollywood poetic-linense applied [...]

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  7. In Bruges

    Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 29 July 2009

    I’m just on my way to Bruges now after having ordered a return ticket and enquired which platform the train departs from, all in French. I do struggle a bit with mimicking the accent but I think that’s partly because I resent having to. You see it’s perfectly acceptable for David Ginola to turn up on [...]

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  8. Battle of the Bulge

    Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 28 July 2009

    We just took it fairly easy last night, I was knackered as i’d been up to 5 the night before and my accommodating Finnish host had work in the morning. A nice meal out in a very European restaurant (I had stoemp saucesses which is basically bangers ‘n mash) washed down with a few bières [...]

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  9. Brussels, Amsterdam and the Green Fairy

    Blog: Everything Everywhere - 26 June 2009

    I’ve left Brussels and have made the short trip to Amsterdam. I enjoyed my time in Brussels but in the end I was left with the question “what is really there?”. Brussels is the capital of the European Union and of NATO, as well as being the capital of Belgium. Unlike Paris or Rome the [...]

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