So you’ve been to one festival, Graspop in Belgium, from June 24th – 28th and you’re going to another festival, Metalcamp in Slovenia, from July 05th – 11th.
You’ve got a couple of options;
- You could get the Eurostar home from Belgium on Monday the 28th of June and then fly out to Slovenia on Sunday the 04th
- You could spend a week travelling from Belgium to Slovenia
There’s probably other options, but these are the obvious ones in my mind.
Coming home and then flying out was logical at first but boring, stressful and costly. Flights to Slovenia seem pricey and booking last minute cheap tickets isn’t a risk we were willing to take if we didn’t get any.
So travelling through Europe for a week it is!
This summer, my good friend Dan and I are invading Europe!
Our objectives:
- Drink as much beer as possible
- Eat as much local food as possible
- Rock out… as much as possible!
Leg 1 starts on Wednesday 23rd of June, when we’ll be heading out to Antwerp in Belgium with several other friends for the beginning of the trip. Thursday we’ll be heading to Dessel in north Belgium for Graspop Metal Meeting until Monday morning.
Monday we head back to Antwerp for a recovery night at Den Heksenketel and for some delicious beers and veal. Maybe a short walk around Antwerp too if it’s not too hot, but considering previous years have been sweltering I’m not holding out much hope for that!
Tuesday Dan and I say goodbye to the rest of the crue and head on the first of many uncharted trips!
First we will be heading to Frankfurt for a night, then onto Prague for 2 nights, then to Munich for 2 nights, then to Salzburg for an afternoon and heading onto Ljubljana for a night before the final part of Leg 2 of the invasion, heading to Tolmin for Metalcamp!!!
Metalcamp – possibly the best festival idea of all time… 6 days of Beach, Forest, River, Beer, Music and Striptease.
After that it’ll be a night in Milan, a night in Gruyere, a night in Strasbourg and then back to Belgium for a trip to the oude market in Leuven.. over 45 bars and restaurants in one market area?! Awesome!