[N8 v2.0]

Cool thing about Germany is that Belgium is 4 hrs away. My wife arranged a 6 day trip there for me birfday - got back Monday:

Spent a couple days in Brussels:

Visited Cantillon Brewery

Visited the Battle of Waterloo site:

Stayed several days In "fvckin" Bruges

Visited this abbey for beer:

Paid our respects to the fallen in and around Ypres:

... and turned 50.

 

[eric strt6]

cool trip and belated HFBD you middle aged Bastid

 

[N8 v2.0]

danke

 

[Sandro]

Visited this abbey for beer:

So is this stuff all it's cracked up to be?

 

[N8 v2.0]

I quite enjoy it and think it is just a smidgen better than Rochefort 10.

Beers we picked up at the grocery mart across from our hotel in Bruges

 

[Quo Fan]

Time to convince the wife we need to visit Belgium.

 

[N8 v2.0]

Time to convince the wife we need to visit Belgium.

lemme know if you need travel tips.

 

[jonKranked]

man i loved belgium. i really wanna go back.

n8 did you have a chance to check out antwerp or ghent?

 

[jonKranked]

So is this stuff all it's cracked up to be?

it's really good. i'd be curious to do a blind side by side taste test with st bernardus abt 12.

 

[N8 v2.0]

man i loved belgium. i really wanna go back.

n8 did you have a chance to check out antwerp or ghent?

Ghent is on the list for our next visit, we heard a lot of great things about it.

I am not sure when we will be back this year, maybe in the fall.. not sure. We have a week long trip to Normandy planned for the week of the June 6 DDay remembrances and a trip to Berlin at the end of Aug. In between we will be hitting up the Alscance region of France (Strasbourg) a few times and another weekend in Munich.

 

[jonKranked]

Ghent is on the list for our next visit, we heard a lot of great things about it.

I am not sure when we will be back this year, maybe in the fall.. not sure. We have a week long trip to Normandy planned for the week of the June 6 DDay remembrances and a trip to Berlin at the end of Aug. In between we will be hitting up the Alscance region of France (Strasbourg) a few times and another weekend in Munich.

i'd say put antwerp on the list too, if only to see the plantin-moretus museum. my sister lived in atwerp for a while, so when i was visiting that's where i stayed. very nice town.

 

[N8 v2.0]

i'd say put antwerp on the list too, if only to see the plantin-moretus museum. my sister lived in atwerp for a while, so when i was visiting that's where i stayed. very nice town.

We'll add it.. hell, everything is soooo close together in Europe anyhow - unlike the Southwestern US where we moved from.

 

[jonKranked]

We'll add it.. hell, everything is soooo close together in Europe anyhow - unlike the Southwestern US where we moved from.

yea, i could definitely see myself living over there for a while. it's nice, its easy to get around, people aren't stupid americans. my company is headquartered in switzerland, so there's that.

 

[dan-o]

Nice trip.
We lived in NL right on the Belgian and German borders. It was nice to hop over to Belgium to escape the regimentation of the Dutch/Germans.

Normandy is impressive, you'll have a great time.

 

[stevew]

thread is lacking in mountains.

 

[jonKranked]

thread is lacking in mountains.

coincidentally, so is belgium

 

[SkaredShtles]

6 days in Belgium? Seems like too much.

Should have gone to Cham.

 

[stevew]

coincidentally, so is belgium

mountains over beer....all day.

 

[SkaredShtles]

mountains over beer....all day.

You can have both, you know.

 

[stevew]

You can have both, you know.

evidently not N8 on his birthday.

 

[jonKranked]

belgium is a really underrated place to visit.

 

[UNHrider]

those breweries are on my dream list, quite jealous.

 

[dan-o]

You can have both, you know.

In Belgium no less.

 

[N8 v2.0]

In Belgium no less.

We're considering a trip to the Ardennes (Bastogne etc) and the abbey Rochefort.

 

[SkaredShtles]

In Belgium no less.

Liar.

 

[SkaredShtles]

belgium is a really underrated place to visit.

It's really quite nice... we visited Antwerp briefly (to buy a diamond ), spent a couple days in Ghent, hit Bruges, and spent a bit of time in Ostend. Mmmm... moules frites.

 

[N8 v2.0]

Mmmm... moules frites.

yes....

 

[N8 v2.0]

Had to add a Belgian section to meh olde beir keller..

 

[jonKranked]

Stoofvlees.

 

[N8 v2.0]

Stoofvlees.

.. met frieten...?

 

[stevew]

N8's beer cellar looks like a porn set....

 

[dan-o]

N8's beer cellar looks like a porn set....

Bring out the gimp!

 

[SkaredShtles]

There are an awful lot of empty shelves and wine-rack-space.

I approve!

Ya lush.