It's pretty quiet at work at the minute, and my girlfriend is a schoolteacher so she is off for a few weeks now. So I'm gonna take her away for a while to unwind, as the last few weeks of term have been super tense. She has even lost her voice today!
Have car, can travel. Sea France have a boat that will sort out the watery bit, et voila! Brussels here we come!
So do any of you belgians have any ideas of cool shit to do/see in and around Brussels (My knowledge of Brussels is limited to brussels sprouts)?
I have deduced that the Ardennes quarry is less than 2hrs from brussels, so I may manage to persuade her to go there for a day trip. Would I need to sort it out before hand, or do they have a visitor centre type thing?
I will be staying at New Continental Apartments 33 rue Defacqz ,Brussels, Belgium from 23/07/2010 until 28/07/2010 if that makes any difference.
Thanks in advance for the local intel.
I hope she likes it. She is asleep on the sofa atm with no idea of the plans that are afoot.
Edit: I will have the car with me, so I am interested in aything you may think is worth seeing within a few hours of Brussels. Anyhing where we could reasonably be there and back to our accomodation in one day. Anything particularly good may even warrant an overnight stay.
Have car, can travel. Sea France have a boat that will sort out the watery bit, et voila! Brussels here we come!
So do any of you belgians have any ideas of cool shit to do/see in and around Brussels (My knowledge of Brussels is limited to brussels sprouts)?
I have deduced that the Ardennes quarry is less than 2hrs from brussels, so I may manage to persuade her to go there for a day trip. Would I need to sort it out before hand, or do they have a visitor centre type thing?
I will be staying at New Continental Apartments 33 rue Defacqz ,Brussels, Belgium from 23/07/2010 until 28/07/2010 if that makes any difference.
Thanks in advance for the local intel.
I hope she likes it. She is asleep on the sofa atm with no idea of the plans that are afoot.
Edit: I will have the car with me, so I am interested in aything you may think is worth seeing within a few hours of Brussels. Anyhing where we could reasonably be there and back to our accomodation in one day. Anything particularly good may even warrant an overnight stay.