Hi, this might be of interest:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?I29031A8A

It's indeed possible to be in five different cities in one day, as I was on Saturday.

Sorry, I'm thinking that rex will scream at me....

Should have mentioned that the five cities were Brussels, Brugge, Gent, Antwerp, Amsterdam.

There's even a tiny little bit of Paris thrown in....

And thanks to you, again, MyriamC, for telling me about the Belgian rail weekend ticket (there's a Benelux version of this, I'm pretty sure).

Fantastic! Thanks again!
I left a comment or two, I would have liked to have heard more about that wallpaper - bondage??

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Glad to hear you had a good time, and that you were able to accomplish all you wanted.

On a side note- It wasn't really "confusion" on the arrival time. When you were delayed, they estimate a new arrival time...but you were lucky...many times, if there are good tail winds, the pilots can make up considerable time in the air.

There was definitely a bondage theme. I think that they were photos. Anyway, I don't find S&M such a turn on. It's Room 211 (if I remember right).

When I searched for the hotel here, I found this old post:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34571038

(There's (was?) an escort service on the seventh floor, supposedly.)

Anyway, I was more amused by that post than frightened by it. It's a harmless hotel and quite ok for 55 euros. The front desk is staffed 24 hours. It's written up in lots of guide books.

But obviously, it can't hold a candle to Tiquetonne, in my view. I stayed there again and I was very pleased. When I left, one of the women who worked there said, "A la prochaine fois." I don't know if she recognized me, but I'm definitely a next time at Tiquetonne.

My daughter loves Brussels. She was there last March and will be there again this May and will then go on to Ghent where she is renting an apt and going Castle seeing.
I expect a good amount of chocolate to be brought back ..
and she also got a wonderful amount of help from the charming Myriam C

Hi Fly, no -- they were consistently off by an hour up until arrival. So the clock had to be wrong. I only realized that we were only 15 minutes late when the final announcement was made (you know, "Welcome to Brussels. The local time is blah blah blah.&quot Of course if I hadn't dozed off initially I probably would have had a better idea. I did think to myself that we couldn't be late by 75 minutes as I didn't think that we were that late initially (but then winds could have been unfavorable, etc.).

Then I thought that the clock had to be recently adjusted for a mistake like this to occur -- but then I thought that couldn't be the case either. So it was a mystery.

That's great, Scarlett.

I'm grateful for our Belgian experts on this forum (Myriam in Antwerp, BT (ex-Brussels), and I know from reading the forum casually that there're a few more floating around).