Last year my wife and I travelled with BeWelcome to Linz in Austria, and were warmly welcomed by another member of this hospitality exchange network. He was vegan, and in the morning served us a delicious breakfast made up entirely of products that contained no animal products of any kind (so no milk, no eggs, no cheese). All the "traditional" ingredients that would contain animal products were replaced by tofu, seitan, soy milk and similar food items.
And now we moved back to Grimbergen and we found a good Bioshop just around the corner. There they also stock vegetarian food, including the famous Tartex organic patés. I'm not sure they are 100% vegan, but they taste deliciously and come in 19 different flavours like Mushroom and Herb Meadow.
So what are you waiting for? Try some healthy organic breakfast instead of smoked ham with eggs...
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donderdag 21 mei 2009
Visiting Friends in Lübeck
At around 6:30 we arrived at our hotel, an Etap hotel with the typical practical Etap design. This means it is one star more than a Formule 1 hotel (a little bit more comfort, an acceptable breakfast buffet and free internet in the rooms). The toilets and bathroom (separate) reminded me a bit about those in a train wagon, and cleaning them will probably take 30 seconds with a high-pressure water gun and some disinfectant.
We unpacked, rested a bit and left for my friend Tinchen and her mother Anni, a friendship that dates back to the times when young kids had pen pals and sent them real letters… We were welcomed with warmth and first of all exchanged some news about what had happened in our lives. Old memories were revived too and on top of all the nice conversation we were served a delicious gratin with meat, peppers and tomatoes.
Caitlin was her usual friendly and curious self, only quite late did she get tired and a bit cranky, so we decided to go back to our hotel room and went straight to bed. Having Caitlin sleep between us proved very comfortable. Maybe we shouldn't bring our travel bed anymore next time.
Tomorrow we will test www.bewelcome.org in Rostock :)
maandag 11 mei 2009
Our friends are leaving Brussels
This article was first published on 24/4/07
Quite a lot of people that we know through BeWelcome.org left Belgium this year. Katherine, Laura, Danah, Dylan, Patrick…. I hope we can stay in touch and meet up again soon. But also some new people came to Brussels, like Asia W. and Tadeusz and Asia H. And we helped Olga move to her new house near Vilvoorde, and visited Wokzter and Karamia who spent Easter in Brussels at Mart_o-clock’s place.
Update:
many more have left since then. Beyhan to Romania, Bartek back to Poland, Krista to Finland, Joeri to Scandinavia (surprise, surprise...)
Quite a lot of people that we know through BeWelcome.org left Belgium this year. Katherine, Laura, Danah, Dylan, Patrick…. I hope we can stay in touch and meet up again soon. But also some new people came to Brussels, like Asia W. and Tadeusz and Asia H. And we helped Olga move to her new house near Vilvoorde, and visited Wokzter and Karamia who spent Easter in Brussels at Mart_o-clock’s place.
Update:
many more have left since then. Beyhan to Romania, Bartek back to Poland, Krista to Finland, Joeri to Scandinavia (surprise, surprise...)
zondag 10 mei 2009
Hospitality Exchange Movie Mondays
This article was first published April 2, 2007
In April I started organizing my Movie Mondays. First the idea was to invite some friends from the different hospex websites like BeWelcome.org to join we at the cinema for a monthly movie. But the concept proved to be so successful (sometimes we had up to 20 people joining us) that I decided to have it every week. We saw some great movies together this year (Eastern Promises, The Simpsons, Shoot ‘m’ Up) but also some not so good ones (Beowulf). But in the end we always went for a drink in Café Monk and talked about life, movies and other interesting topics. I have made some great friends there (Sylvie, Franco, Krista, Kristina, Stef, George, Beyhan, Olga, Tadeusz, Bartek and all the Asia’s …)
Every week we also write a review about the movie for inclusion on the Becultural website
In April I started organizing my Movie Mondays. First the idea was to invite some friends from the different hospex websites like BeWelcome.org to join we at the cinema for a monthly movie. But the concept proved to be so successful (sometimes we had up to 20 people joining us) that I decided to have it every week. We saw some great movies together this year (Eastern Promises, The Simpsons, Shoot ‘m’ Up) but also some not so good ones (Beowulf). But in the end we always went for a drink in Café Monk and talked about life, movies and other interesting topics. I have made some great friends there (Sylvie, Franco, Krista, Kristina, Stef, George, Beyhan, Olga, Tadeusz, Bartek and all the Asia’s …)
Every week we also write a review about the movie for inclusion on the Becultural website
Hospitality Exchange Movie Mondays
This article was first published April 2, 2007
In April I started organizing my Movie Mondays. First the idea was to invite some friends from the different hospex websites like BeWelcome.org to join we at the cinema for a monthly movie. But the concept proved to be so successful (sometimes we had up to 20 people joining us) that I decided to have it every week. We saw some great movies together this year (Eastern Promises, The Simpsons, Shoot ‘m’ Up) but also some not so good ones (Beowulf). But in the end we always went for a drink in Café Monk and talked about life, movies and other interesting topics. I have made some great friends there (Sylvie, Franco, Krista, Kristina, Stef, George, Beyhan, Olga, Tadeusz, Bartek and all the Asia’s …)
Every week we also write a review about the movie for inclusion on the Becultural website
In April I started organizing my Movie Mondays. First the idea was to invite some friends from the different hospex websites like BeWelcome.org to join we at the cinema for a monthly movie. But the concept proved to be so successful (sometimes we had up to 20 people joining us) that I decided to have it every week. We saw some great movies together this year (Eastern Promises, The Simpsons, Shoot ‘m’ Up) but also some not so good ones (Beowulf). But in the end we always went for a drink in Café Monk and talked about life, movies and other interesting topics. I have made some great friends there (Sylvie, Franco, Krista, Kristina, Stef, George, Beyhan, Olga, Tadeusz, Bartek and all the Asia’s …)
Every week we also write a review about the movie for inclusion on the Becultural website
zaterdag 9 mei 2009
BeWelcome goes ONLINE
this article was first published on 22 February 2007
In February BeWelcome went online, the first legal open-source Hospitality Exchange Network. You can find more about it here : www.bewelcome.org or check out my Thorgal67 profile http://www.bewelcome.org/bw/member.php?cid=thorgal67
Whether you are looking to make friends or trying to find accommodation all over the world, BeWelcome caters for all travellers trying to get in touch with like-minded people. At the moment we have about 2200 members and the number is growing.
In February BeWelcome went online, the first legal open-source Hospitality Exchange Network. You can find more about it here : www.bewelcome.org or check out my Thorgal67 profile http://www.bewelcome.org/bw/member.php?cid=thorgal67
Whether you are looking to make friends or trying to find accommodation all over the world, BeWelcome caters for all travellers trying to get in touch with like-minded people. At the moment we have about 2200 members and the number is growing.
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