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Figuring out travel, food, life & exploring Brussels whenever I'm there


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Trying to figure out this Belgian Self-Employment Visa thing…

I’ve been wondering when is the right time is to start applying for a self-employment visa for Belgium. The main page explaining the process is here. I’ve thought it would take only about 4 months, so there would be a good bit of time

Well CRAP… just even in the course of writing this post, I found this page that says it takes a year to get the Professional card.

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Brussels / Bruxelles Bike Rental

Villo.be Bike RentalMy Belgian friend and host, Ward, turned me on to the Villo bike rental program in Brussels. It only costs 30€ per month and can be reserved now, 4 months before my trip. I’ll tackle that later this May after I’m done with all my thesis goodness.


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Brussels Ticket, Bought!

A couple of weeks ago, I finally bit the bullet and bought my ticket to Brussels, Belgium. It’s for 75 days, September 8th to November 21st. The first two weeks, I’ll spend about 6 days in Paris and then 5 days in Lisbon, Portugal with my traveling friend, Jenn. Neither of us have been to Paris and I haven’t been back to Lisbon since August 2002. Can you say awesome? Yes, I think you can. And, I can’t wait to see this guy again, lovely Belgian friend that he is.

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