{"id":2627,"date":"2015-02-11T13:08:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2015-02-11T13:08:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:08:49","slug":"travel-back-to-belgium-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/travel-back-to-belgium-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Travel: Back to Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"View 'Cantillon - Brussels, Belgium' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/13908523588\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Cantillon - Brussels, Belgium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7322\/13908523588_51ffba8880_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cantillon - Brussels, Belgium\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is more of a preliminary announcement for my readers in Benelux but I\u2019ll be in the area March 5th &#8211; 8th to see some friends and also attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/acbf2015\">Alvinne festival<\/a>. This trip also includes a 24 hour stop-over in Istanbul to take photos and rate some beers from a new country. Mostly, I just wanted the extra Star Alliance miles.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a schedule-preview:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arrive in Brussels, 4th of March @ 21:45<\/li>\n<li>5th: Beer buying w\/ Rental car (3 Fonteinen, Cantillon, Hopduvel Gent, etc)<\/li>\n<li>6-7 Alvinne Festival with Tim, Eugene, Dylan, others?<\/li>\n<li>8th: Grote Dorst for lunch and beers<\/li>\n<li>8th evening (plane ride to Istanbul)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>I have a few trades already established so apologies that I can\u2019t arrange any further trades while there. On the 5th, I will be hitting Brussels, Gent and Antwerp so let\u2019s meet if we can. I\u2019d like to visit Kulminator again on this trip as the last 2 times it has been closed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A return visit is planned in May when I\u2019ll be visiting France, Belgium, Copenhagen and Stockholm with hopefully a single day in Cologne Germany.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>See you all very soon!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is more of a preliminary announcement for my readers in Benelux but I\u2019ll be in the area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:22:36Z","apple_news_api_id":"649b33de-8253-4a7e-aa12-d7360f8596f8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:22:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZJsz3oJTSn6qEtc2D4WW-A","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-travel","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-Gn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4510,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/03\/13\/travel-a-few-photos-from-my-recent-euro-trip\/","url_meta":{"origin":2627,"position":0},"title":"Travel: A few photos from my recent Euro-Trip","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"For the past 5 years, I\u2019ve been lucky to have gone to Europe on someone else\u2019s dime. 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