Beersel Travel Guide

 breughel Says:  Ce château médiéval, à quelques Km au sud de Bruxelles, a été pour beaucoup d'enfants de cette ville un premier contact avec des fortifications réelles du Moyen Age. D'autant plus que la porte de Hal et son musée sont fermés depuis de nombreuses années.J'ai visité le château... 

 breughel Says:  There is a comics trip (called over here "bande dessinée" or BD) on Beersel with the famous "Bob et Bobette" or "Suske en Wiske" (in Flemish) who competed with Tintin and Spirou in what we consider in Western Europe as an art. The hero of this historical comic strip is... 

 breughel Says:  Construite vers 1300 cette forteresse constituait une défense avancée de Bruxelles. Elle appartint pendant plusieurs siècles aux Witthem.Le paradoxe veut que la seule fois où ce château fut enlevé ce fût par les Bruxellois en 1489 lors d'un épisode de guerre civile contre... 

 el_ruso Says:  The castle, located just South from Brussels, was constructed in 1310 to control access to the city.Access is E2.50. There is not much inside, but you can wander the central court, or go up one of our tires and walk along the restored covered ramparts. The area around the... 

 LysDor Says:  Le Roi d'Espagne was our last stop for a Julius or Alexander beer as we admired with the waiter what some members have purchased at the Beer Temple shop: a serious number of beers and glasses, trays and other wimsicles related surprisingly to belgian beers! 

 LysDor Says:  The hours passed and more beers and more discussions about beers were going on until only few members were left and got inside the estaminet at 3 o'clock in the morning. Geert was sleeping on the bar's counter but soon was asking what kind of beer he could serve. He didn't... 

 LysDor Says:  More speeches were given in the hotel's garden and a diploma for excellent service given to Geert. 

 LysDor Says:  MORE SPEECHESBack at the hotel, I gave serious comments to our driver and made a complain to the bus company which decided to contribute to the group's hobby by refunding the bus fee from the disastreous Bruges trip. That allowed the Beer Club to offer free drinks to its... 

 LysDor Says:  What to do in Brussels a Saturday night after 23H00? N O N E, so a quick telephone call to Geert in Beersel asking him to keep open the hotel's estaminet and put some gueuses and trappist beers in the fridge.On our way to Beersel, the bus wasn't anymore warm but HOT and some... 

 LysDor Says:  The restaurant had reserved the whole upstair's cabinet and served us a three courses meal: Maredsou cheese croquette, chicken waterzooi and kriek sorbet. The menu included half of bottle of wine or belgian beers. We chose Westvleteren 12 beer and drank all that they had.... 

 LysDor Says:  DINNER IN BRUSSELSThe bus left the group at Place de Brouckere, so we decided to have our first aperitive at the terrace of the hotel Metropole. As we had some time to kill before our dinner at In't Spinnekopke we took a short sight-seeing on foot to show some of the members... 

 LysDor Says:  We wanted to have a beer at the famous Brugs Beertje pub but to our disapointment it was closed! Fortunately our lunch restaurant Malpertuus had nice Witbiers and a normal 3 courses lunch washed down with Brugse Tarwerbier and Straffe. 

 LysDor Says:  The year 2002 cultural city offered us beautiful views from our canal tour before our visit to the museum homebrewery De Halve Maan. This brewery is owned by the Maes family and is huge with several floors and was still operating in 1969. From the roof you get exceptional... 

 LysDor Says:  BRUGES DAYThe day started cloudy but soon turned sunny as we approached Bruges. Though the bus ride got warm, maybe too warm because our new bus driver was freezing in his front seat. Even his girl-friend that he brought along couldn't warm him up! The new bus didn't have... 

 LysDor Says:  The menu was typically belgian with mussels, schrimp croquettes, fish-dishes. The beer range included some older gueuses such as a cheerfully dry from 1997. Beers can also be purchased from the restaurant which each of us did.