lauantai 14. huhtikuuta 2012

come take a walk

Small post before i come to my week of travelling around Belgium.
I finally started to eat vegetables from the market again. I dunno why, but I feel it's been a while since I last ate any. I also forgot how cheap it is to purchase food from the market, so it was a double excitement.
I went to an antique/flea market here in Hasselt, bought nothing, but wanted to if I stay for the rest of my life here. In search of something yummy and sweet, I found a new pastry shop, where they sell marvelous pastries. I always try a new cafe or a shop or a restaurant here in order to taste different things.
I got very good news from a library - my card was ready. I took the book I've been reading for a couple of times I visited there, and I like it very much. It is "A year in the world" By Francis Mayes. It is about living in different parts of the world with tasting the culture, the food and the lifestyle of each place. Francis Mayes is also an author of "Under the Tuscan Sun". I haven't read the book, but the movie I can watch all over again. I like her style and it makes me wanna go somewhere, live somewhere. I'm actually living somewhere now, so it is a wonderful opportunity I have now and I should appreciate it more.
13€


best!? dessert I've ever tasted




torstai 12. huhtikuuta 2012

seek and you will find


Random photos from random places. I know I don't like to take photos when I'm in a rush somewhere/not alone, so from Antwerp and Liege i got only couple of them. I went to visit my fellow students,  cause they were staying in Antwerp for an intensive programme. If I would have known, that I'm gonna study only 2 days a week, i would have took part in this programme too.
So Antwerp is a nice big city, with great shopping possibilities and a wonderful vegetarian restaurant. It is also beautiful and interesting place, but It was cold to walk a lot, so we spent most of the time shopping and having couple of beers after that.
Next trip was to Liege. It was organized by school, of course not mine, and we visited chocolate factory on the way. Just like in a school trip we were divided into groups and in Liege we had to follow the map and the answer questions. At first I thought it's gonna be interesting. In the end it was more like running around the city with no chance to stop and even take a proper photo.
Hasselt feels like a small town so it's nice to travel around Belgium

Antwerpen







 Liege




Hasselt

now i know how my dog is gonna look like <3





  


tiistai 10. huhtikuuta 2012

leuven

March it was. Not warm enough yet, but we wanted to escape from Hasselt and go somewhere. Leuven is a 40min away student town. It is very beautiful and interesting, so i'm just waiting for sun and warmth to come and i'm definitely going back to just sit in the park and enjoy my time. M museum was a place to stop by. It was strange to see a photographer and camera men outside, so i was wondering what is happening...There was a contest between artists to get an exhibition place in the museum. It took several floors, several themes, several hours to see whole collection there. Museums are physically exhausting, like shopping, so after some walking around and waiting for any place to open (most restaurants are open 11.30-14.30;18-21), it was dinner time and train back home. I think i should go there soon ;)




someday i'm gonna fly away