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Purple wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:11 pm I was looking at Brussels and Waterloo end of year.
Brussels worth the trip?

Brussels is fucking shit mate, no sugar-coating it. The city centers really quite spread out so you need to arse around with buses to see everything. The whole place is ill maintained and quite shabby.
They advertise ‘100 museums’, but once you get into double figures you’re talking about the museum of milling, and the like.
Military museum’s TREMENDOUS. Unrepentantly warry!
Shops here all do their own weird opening hours.

And half of Syria’s here. (The male half, anyway.) Tourists eat early, and from about 8 onwards, the famous ‘cafe culture’ is wall to wall male arabs. There’s not a park bench that isn’t an Iraqi’s bivvy.

You see ads everywhere here for day trips to Ghent, Antwerp & Bruges - all of which are lovely. Go there. Day trip to Brussels for the military museum.

And rent a bike and take a bus to Waterloo.

Norman D. Landings wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 3:01 pm Brussels is fucking shit mate,

You should consider doing a travel review VLOG. Lollll

Thanks for the heads up. A little rethink is in order.

Purps - Trip to Waterloo? I would go late summer/early autumn when the local kids are back at school. You'll need at least four days to cover all four battlefields decently, walk around the significant parts, visit all the local museums, etc. See if you can get a B&B locally to the battlefield; even this won't be cheap, but somewhere low budget will either leave you faced with a long and difficult drive/public transport journey, or be so far off you'll lose much of the day travelling to/from the fields. Look at self-catering, or you will spend a fortune eating out around the battlefields.

I have a book on walking the 100 Days' battlefields, if you'd like to borrow it.

https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/Proper ... o/Holiday/
Or you could just blow the budget and stay in Hougoumont!

garyp wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 10:08 pm https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/Proper ... o/Holiday/
Or you could just blow the budget and stay in Hougoumont!

Is that why they put the guards in there; the only chaps in the army who could afford the day rates?

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 8:45 pm Purps - Trip to Waterloo? I would go late summer/early autumn when the local kids are back at school. You'll need at least four days to cover all four battlefields decently, walk around the significant parts, visit all the local museums, etc. See if you can get a B&B locally to the battlefield; even this won't be cheap, but somewhere low budget will either leave you faced with a long and difficult drive/public transport journey, or be so far off you'll lose much of the day travelling to/from the fields. Look at self-catering, or you will spend a fortune eating out around the battlefields.

I have a book on walking the 100 Days' battlefields, if you'd like to borrow it.

Thanks for tips. Next year perhaps then. Which book is it RTL, I may have it already.

"Waterloo Battlefield Guide" by David Buttery.

Ew buttery waterloo!

He isn't RTL any more, he identifies as BVR.