ah, the Route de la Bière…

Famous pubs we visited while in Brussels (Bruxelles)

• Au Bon Vieux Temps: a 300 year-old bar in Brussels, where we had an interesting beer tasting experience
• A la Becasse, where Al had a slab o’ bread with Ardennes ham, and of course we both tasted more Belgian beer
• A la Mort Subite, a historic brasserie in Brussels
  
• Toone, a great selection of beer and a sweet bar cat kept us coming back for more!
• the Delirium Tremens Café, seeing pink elephants and drinking (more) great beer
• A l’Imaige Nostre-Dame, another historical pub in Brussels
• Moeder Lambic, one of the few non-historical pubs we visited in Brussels, famous for it’s selection of sour fruit ales (lambics)

what to do in Brussels in between drinking beer:

• the Brussels Beer Museum
• the Atomium: the 50s version of space age
• our B&B, the Hotel Bluets
• 5 reasons I have to go back to Brussels
• never arrive in Brussels on a Monday (especially if you’re a beer lover)
• Belgium’s famous cartoonists in the Comic Strip Centre in an Arte Nouveau warehouse
• Victor Horta’s House, the leading designer of Arte Nouveau in Belgium

On Fairytale Bruges (Brugge):

• a lunch worth waiting for at the Cambrinus
• tour of the Brugse Zot Brewery in Bruges
• t’ Brugs Beertje in Bruges
• dinner at the Cambrinus
• shopping for a picnic in Bruges, Belgium
• warming up a chilly day in Bruges
• the Verdi B&B
• the artist’s shoes (Photo Challenge)
• the Bruges Belltower, a photo essay done in video so you can hear the sound of the bells

On Ghent (Gent):

• beer and museums on our first day in Ghent
• a visit to the Ghent Belltower, a photo essay done in video so you can hear the sound of the bells
• the Cathedral, a photo essay accompanied by harp music
• eerie Gravensteen Castle (Photo Challenge)
• beer, food and museums on our second day in Ghent – Part 1
• Ghent SMAK exhibit, the conceptual Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov
• STAM, the Museum of the City
• beer, food and museums on our second day in Ghent – Part 2

The Belgian Coast:

• off to a photo exhibition at Knokke-Heist on the Belgian Coast
• a soggy (but delicious) evening in De Panne
• walking the Belgian dunes at the Westhoek Nature Reserve
• enroute to Arras, France

A Detour to France:

• Vimy Ridge

And Back to Touring Around Belgium:

• getting lost in Dinant
• a damp but tasty evening in Dinant
• a day trip to the Ruines de Montaigle and Abbaye de Maredsous
• tour of the Caracole Brewery
• onto Hasselt and the Gin Museum
• a stop in Hasselt
• on to a boat tour of the canals and tunnels of Maastricht, Holland

Travels with Mikey from Antwerp and Back:

• our first Antwerp beers
• De Kulminator Pub in Antwerp, Belgium
• the Rubenshof Art Nouveau B&B in Antwerp
• traveling to Mons
• a beery afternoon in Mons
• the farmer’s market in Mons
• back to Antwerp via a brewery and a chateau
• Antwerp’s magnificent train station
• Antwerp’s Anthropology Museum
• De Vagant, a recommended gin palace

A Detour Through Holland:

• arriving in Delft, with a CAR!
• Delft day 1: the New Church (Nieuwe Kerk)
• Delft day 2: the Old Church (Oude Kerk) & Vermeer
• ‘t Klooster, a very special pub in Delft
• a visit to the coast and its dunes of Holland