Phie Travels

I’ll be taking you to the popular and less popular hotspots in Leuven. Leuven is a busy student city, but it has so many beautiful places you should really visit. First things first, Leuven is a city in the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It’s located 25 kilometers east of Brussels and is the 8 th largest city of Belgium. The two things I think you could know Leuven from are the KU Leuven (the largest university of Belgium) and the world’s largest beer brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev. University Library (Ladeuzeplein) When to go I would definitely recommend visiting Leuven in summer (from June to September), because it’s really nice to walk around the city when the weather is nice. To avoid the huge amount of students that study in Leuven, July is probably the best month because they go home in summer. If you want to go out, come during the academic year (Late september until late June). As Leuven is not a very big city, you probably only need a day to see all the hotspots, bu...

Today, we're exploring the Vesterålen and some more places in Norway and Sweden.  Day 8: Vesterålen Another day, another ferry. With our next destination being the Vesterålen, we had to take a ferry. The little red cottage where we would be staying had grass on the roof. This is something typical for Norway. Hotel:  Andoy Friluftssenter, Risoyhamn   Lots of small villages in Norway have houses by the water with small piers and small ports. This is something we don't have in Belgium and I think it's rather typical for Norway. I love seeing those houses and ports, so you can imagine how much we stopped to see them. We woke up in the middle of the night to see the northern lights and even though it's very rare in the summer to see them, we got a little show and I already loved it. Now I want to go back in winter for the real deal! If you plan on going aurora hunting, download an aurora forecast app. Then you know when you have to wake up (because when it's cold, yo...

In 2016 we went to Lapland. Lapland is what we call the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland. (I think it's called S á pmi in English.) It  is the  cultural region  traditionally inhabited by the  Sámi people. In about two weeks we travelled through Lapland with our starting point in Lule å, Sweden. Day 1: Lule å We flew from Brussels Airport to Stockholm and then from Stockholm to Lule å, a city in the northeast of Sweden. For the car enthusiasts out there: In Brussels Airport they always have a couple of cars on display and back in 2016 they had a nice BMW i8 in the Belgian colours (black, yellow and red).  When we arrived in  Lule å, we did some sightseeing.  They have a beautiful church and a big technology university. We didn't stay there very long, because we had lots of nice things planned for the next days. Day 2:  Gammelstad Church Town Our first stop was just 10 minutes from Lule å by car.  Gammelstad Church Town is...