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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

The BeNeLux Tour(Days 2 & 3 to Belgium N Luxembourg)

So, guess U ppl had a long journey in my previous post.kk, I'll make it brief here.But tht day in Amsterdam was real LONGGGGGGG.

In Amsterdam, the railway station was closed in the nite, So, we took a train to Rotredam. We reached there at around 3 AM. Now strted tough time, We had to stay in the station only, but even Rotredam station also will be closed. So, wht we did was we checked a place near the station(guess its a part of it) where there is some sub-way type(later came to know tht its the way to metro N is on repair) and sat there the whole night till 6 AM. It was really very very cold tht day.

Later left to Brussels N then to Louvine La Neuve[LLN](The place where our class mate Virender is stayin fr his internship). We took a map in the station which was completely deserted and left in search of Viren. U know, lookin at the roads, no no they were deserted roads, the first feelin I got is tht its some place like BRATISLAVA,(Hey, I have not been there, but just as it was shown in EUROTRIP). There was no1 to ask for the address. So, We finally spotted it on the map N left to his room(Spottin the place was tough). The first thing Viren asked was 'How did U reach our room!!!!!'..

So, got freshed up there and left to a place called Knokke Heist. Its a border of Belgium and there is the North Sea. Actually
we came to know tht there is a natural Reserve there. So felt like checkin it out. The place was really a damn good place fr nature lovers... A wonderful place to stay and keep lookin at the place..Its calm and pleasant. Spent some time there N Njoyed..
As shown in the photograph, there is the border fencing(Just check it a bit concentratedly, My jacket is over tht). Its the max in tht direction we can go wid our SCHENGEN VISA. After tht sea is UK.
Myself N Rajat at the border(Knokke Heist)

Then we strted our journey back to Viren's room. Slept there the night. It was really freshnin to sleep in a room rather than some station in tht cold. So, had a wonderful sleep tht day(We were lucky as Viren is not in his room tht day. Gave us the keys in the mornin N left to roam...:))

The next mornin, we strted frm LLN to Brussels. We had 3 hours to roam Brussels, thought it was really less to cover it. We strted walkin wid an aim to cover as many places as possible. We went to the grand place, sat there fr some time N then left to have a look at the Manneken Pis and later went in search of Royal Palace. We were unable to find it but found other places instead. U know when we found tht Royal Palace? just b4 we strted our return journey to catch the train. So, tht was left behind.

At Grand Place, Brussels

Actually, we planned not to get into any museum as we got bored visitin lot of them(I got bored in the first instance...Thought of not repeatin it again). Brussels is completely filled wid a number of Museums, one fr tht, one fr this, so on.... So, we were happy tht we covered Brussels to the max(xcludin the museums).


The Manneken Pin(Too Funny One..)


Then left to Luxembourg to catch a train. Ahh in Luxembourg, we didn't find gud places where we can roam or just see some gud constructions,etc... So, we just walked on the streets saw some park, etc took some snaps.Thts wht we did in Luxembourg.


In Luxembourg


Later caught a train to Munich and reached Munich at 23:55.(we had to reach by tht time, its some EURAIL PASS rule..)
Went to the room N had MAGGI(the best thing tht I bought b4 comin here. Can be cooked widin 5 mins, gr88).

So, overall, the best place I felt durin the trip was AMSTERDAMMMNNN..Gr8 tourist place. Knokke Heist is also a gud place.

So, this way our trip to BeNeLux ended. Finally covered 3 countries in 3 days (before that covered a city in Austria tooo, so total 4) out of 14 countries(available to roam using Schengen VISA...:))

The next weekend we took a BREAK. It was really borin to take a break.....:( :( :(

4 Comments:

Blogger shilpi said...

cool...see staying at the station is also a part of ur fun tour...must have njoyed...but this time i m not jealous of u ...he he he

12:47 AM  
Blogger ritu bajpai said...

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8:51 PM  
Blogger ritu bajpai said...

Spending the night at station is a real adventure but i am sure u did not have as much of it as i had with police men driving us out of the station:) At another instant a rogue scared us with a knife :)

8:52 PM  
Blogger Rajat said...

@siva
kya sahi post likhi hai beta.. ab samajh mein aaya ki GRE essay mein tumhaara itnaa score kaise aa gayaa.. ;)

@shilpi
U shud be.. florence mein station par night bitaane mein to aur bhi majaa ayaa tha.. ;)

@ritu
arrey nahi..
hame bhi police waale hi bhagaate hai har station se..
It has happened with us twice or thrice..

Raat mein stations closed.. huh.. Saare europe ki yahi problem hai.. We were asked to go away at amsterdam and florence too..

AUR yaar ye log comment likh ke delete kyu kar dete hai.. :O

6:21 AM  

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