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Saturday, July 20, 2019. After the usual breakfast at the hostel, the first thing I did was walk over to a small produce market/convenience store across the street to get some fruit and vegetables for the next couple days. Just one way I try to be good to my body at this massive party while not being good to it in other ways (like all the alcohol consumption). One item I got there was a rather large cucumber. Later, while everyone was boarding the bus, there was a Tomorrowland photographer there who got a humorous picture of me taking a bite out of the cucumber. I still have yet to see this photo.
Everyone loaded onto the bus which took off at 13h00 (or "1 pm" as we Anglophones would write it) for another 40-minute ride to Boom. Getting in was just like the previous day, except THIS time I got sniffed by a drug dog while waiting in line to get a locker.
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Friday, July 19, 2019. Suddenly the Train Hostel was way busier than it was the last few days. I may have been the only person there doing the Belgian Journey, but I was far from the only guest going to Tomorrowland. For the next three days the hostel would be full or close to it, and those others were apparently staying in bunks in large rooms full of them. I think I was the only one with a single room.
The bus left at noon and it took about 40 minutes to get to Boom. And the closer we got to Boom, the more I could see the high level of local support for Tomorrowland. As our shuttle buses approached every day, anyone could look around and see countless Tomorrowland flags hanging from the windows and balconies of almost every house and apartment building.
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Thursday, July 18, 2019...this was starting to feel like a routine now. Bus left at 10am. Of the three Belgian Journey cities, Antwerp (Dutch Antwerpen, French Anvers) was easily the closest so it didn't take as long as the last two.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Today's bus wasn't leaving until 1pm, so with several hours to kill, I decided this would be a good morning to hit up the Atomium. I had totally missed this, and just about everything else in Brussels, the last time I rolled through which was last December. Getting there took awhile, though, because Belgium's S-train is not quite as user-friendly as Germany's S-Bahn. Unlike the S-train I rode to Schaerbeek two days earlier, the ones that were coming through on that morning were not marked in any way, and after taking a quick glance at the timetable, another quick glance at Google Maps, I quickly jumped aboard a train with a final destination south of the city, wrongly thinking it was going through Central and Midi stations. Nope! It was going south in a roundabout way, completely avoiding downtown. I had to hop off at the next stop, and ride another train to Bruxelles-Schuman, a little east of downtown, near some EU buildings.
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