How many days should I spend here if I already seen/am not interested in the nearby areas?
>no go zones?
>tourist traps?
>underrated gems?
>any other tips?
belgium
How many days should I spend here if I already seen/am not interested in the nearby areas?
>no go zones?
>tourist traps?
>underrated gems?
>any other tips?
Just go to Ghent and Antwerp. Yw.
belgium is worse netherlands.
no legal weed, and full of francophones who don't speak english
if at all possible, don't go to belgium at all.
>full of francophones
I wish I knew this the first time I decided to book a week going through Belguim
>get asked by some black dude something in french I think it was for what track to get on for the train
"oh sorry my french is ba-"
>Goes off yelling about how some foreigner is wasting his time
>Strike up a conversation with anyone else
>mention from the US
>french-hate-america-mode engaged
>talk about places I am going elsewhere in europe
>what about france?
>oh not really interested
>why not
>dunno nothing I really care to go out of my way there from
>this is like spitting on their mothers grave
>ouin ouin les gens me parlent en français
Personne ne t'a obligé à venir, la prochaine fois cantonne-toi aux pays anglophones
Ghent & Bruges for Flanders, 1 day for each should be enough. The Durbuy-Malmedy-Houffalize triangle in Wallonia for nature & breweries. A week in total should be plenty to see everything you need in Belgium. Don't go to Brussels, just don't.
Belgium is rated like bottom out of all the countries in Europe to visit. I live like 15 minutes from the Belgian border and I see no reason to ever go there.
where do you live? the netherlands
yeah, which is better in every single way. I can't even name 1 attraction in Belgium that is worth visiting.
netherlands doesn't have the ardennes
kek, the swamp germans summer migration is indeed a sight to behold
explain why our nature parks are full of your kind then every summer, dumb fuck
explain why your tourism numbers are absolutely miniscule compared to the Dutch numbers retarded fuck. Nobody looks at a map of Europe, thinks of all the amazing sights to see and think: Fucking Brussels man, that's it.
>no go zones?
Charleroi, Liege, basically any city in Wallonie and some neighborhoods in Brussel although that will be obvious
>tourist traps?
What tourists lol?
>underrated gems?
Paira Daiza, it's a large and very open Zoo, you can e.g pet the Giraffes and the Penguins will walk next to the trail
It's so large you can easily spend an entire day there
There is also Lier, right next to Antwerp and it's literally a smaller version of Brugge except without the tourism
>any other tips?
>shops close 6pm, convience stores close between 7-8pm
>Belgians make the Scandinavians look like extrovert, don't expect to talk to people
>Brussels is 90% arabs and blacks
>We have the best beer in the world
>The country is so small you can actually visit multiple cities in a day
I'm from Belgium so feel free to ask me specifics, while there is less to do than other European countries the quality of what we do have is very high
Why is Liege a no go zone? Was thinking of spending a night or two there in a few weeks.
In actuallity Belgium is quite safe, Liege is one of the worst cities but it'll still be quite safe
Full of pickpockets though
Don't be afraid to go, Charleroi and some parts of Brussels are the only 'real' no go zones, just be aware it isn't as safe as the cities in Flanders
Yeah, I was just going to use it as a hub to get around from for a couple days. Found a good looking metal pub there I hope to go meet some fellow metalfags at was the only reason I was going to stop there.
i guess you're talking about the "warzone" .
yeah it's cool and have free arcade games
Yep, that's it.
Where's the best waffles there? Where else is good for night life in liege?
>convience stores close between 7-8pm
how is that convenient for anyone?
Belgian here , Liège is fine , have nice thing to see , liege waffles are by far the best in the world ,the night life is great , the heights of the city are beautifull .
Pairy Daiza indeed is great , you can also sleep there .
It's not even a real country. Stick to Flanders and avoid Brussels.
Leuven is nice and underrated
val dieu is small but pretty damn comfy .
It have a nice abbaye and of the most famous belgian beer brassery is there , in the middle of fields .
I've just been in Belgium, 2 days in Brussels and 1 day in Liège because I had to make a stopover there.
>Brussels
It is a mixed bag. I had a horrible bad impression on the pissing smell at Gare du Midi, but that impression was toned down due to a place party where they were offering Hoegaarden for 3 EUR. That was in a Sunday. At Monday I hanged around by the city to complete my book, but that car museum was opened. I went on it and it was really worth of it. Then I went to Atomium just after it was closed. I don't know if it is worth to enter on it (mainly because the city landscape is damn ugly), but seeing it live really surprised me positively. Oh, and I have also been in EU parliament, which is surprisingly ugly (also, I wasn't convinced for the reason why they have to be a parliament in Brussels and another one in Strasboug).
Overall, without accounting for the museums, which I haven't been and I don't know if they are good or not, Brussels is well worth 2 days (maybe three if you make a day-trip to Leuven).
>Liège
It is plain shit. And it is worsen by the fact that they are reforming it for putting trams. I really thought that was for the fact that it was destroyed in WWII, but it wasn't. Heck, Aachen was destroyed and it is a very fine city.