Belgium and Luxembourg (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

SURVIVAL GUIDE PRACTICAL INFORMATION 320–329 TRAVEL INFORMATION 330–335 ...

320 SURVIVAL GUIDE PRACTICAL INFORMATION B elgium and Luxembourg are well organized countries, whose people like to see the prac ...

PRACTICAL INFORMATION 321 Helpful advice from the tourist assistance counter in Brussels’s Gare du Midi VISAS AND PASSPORTS Visi ...

322 SURVIVAL GUIDE TIME DIFFERENCE Belgium and Luxembourg are on Central European Time (CET), which is GMT + 1 (one hour ahead o ...

PRACTICAL INFORMATION 323 Specialist equipment on display at the jenever museum in Hasselt MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES The Belgians ar ...

324 SURVIVAL GUIDE Personal Security and Health Belgium and Luxembourg are relatively safe places for visitors and citizens alik ...

PRACTICAL INFORMATION 325 DIRECTORY LAW ENFORCEMENT Brussels Central Police Station Rue du Marché-au-Charbon 30, 1000 BRU. Tel ( ...

326 SURVIVAL GUIDE Banking and Currency As befits their status at the heart of the European Union, both geographically and admin ...

PRACTICAL INFORMATION 327 Coins The euro has eight coin denominations: 1 euro and 2 euros; 50 cents, 20 cents, 10 cents, 5 cents ...

328 SURVIVAL GUIDE Communications and Media Belgium and Luxembourg have excellent communications links. Both countries are also ...

PRACTICAL INFORAMATION 329 Newspaper stand DIRECTORY INTERNET Belgacom http://www.belgacom.be Luxembourg City http://www.hotspot ...

330 SURVIVAL GUIDE B elgium and Luxembourg both have abundant and excellent connections by air, rail and road. Brussels in parti ...

TRAVEL INFORMATION 331 ARRIVING BY BUS Eurolines, a group of coach com panies forming Europe’s largest coach network, oper- ates ...

332 SURVIVAL GUIDE Getting Around Belgium and Luxembourg Both Belgium and Luxembourg have very effective and reasonably priced p ...

TRAVEL INFORMATION 333 der Belgische Spoorwegen (NMBS). Fares are calculated by distance. Children under six travel free, with a ...

334 SURVIVAL GUIDE TRAMS In addition to bus services, Brussels, Ghent and Antwerp have trams. Running on dedi- cated lines that ...

TRAVEL INFORMATION 335 HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGES Visitors can step back in time in Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp with a ride i ...

336 GENERAL INDEX General Index Page numbers in bold refer to main entries A Aarschot 61, 162 , 266 Accommodation apartment-hote ...

GENERAL INDEX 337 Béguinages 27, 61 Aarschot 162 Begijnhofkerk, St-Truiden 166 Begijnhof St Elisabeth 125 Begijnhof van Anderlec ...

338 Central Wallonia (cont.) restaurants 296–7 Waterloo 196–7 Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée 62 , 87, 305 Centre Commercial B ...