Bouillon Tourist Information
General summary of city:
Bouillon is a city that is situated in the province of Luxembourg, in the western section of Belgium. A small city and part of the Neufchateau district, Bouillon has a relatively small population numbering just over 5,000 individuals. Yet, the small population of the city can be somewhat deceiving, Bouillon is a city that offers plenty of things to do see and enjoy.
Bouillon is located very near the French border and is surrounded by Ardennes. Filled with incredible castle structures, and many historical sites to see, the city of Bouillon draws thousands of tourists each year. The city of Bouillon is also the location where Godfrey of Bouillon first left for the Crusades in 1095. Further, the city of Bouillon was, at one time, under the rulership of the French—specifically King Louis XIV in 1676. Later, the city would become part of Belgium in the eighteen century.
Castles, museums, beer breweries, and recreational activities are all easily accessible to guests in Bouillon. In fact, if guests visit Bouillon at the right time of year, they can take in all of the recreational activities that are offered on an annual basis in Bouillon. The city of Bouillon offers a carnival every March, a Trout Festival every April; Falconry demonstrations between the months of April and August; a Medieval Weekend during the month of August; a Craft Fair in September; and a mountain biking expedition in September.
Places of interest:
Bouillon houses a number of sites of historical interest. The Archeoscope is filled to the brim with edifying exhibits: exhibits that will reveal the true history of Bouillon, from its early beginnings to the present day. Further, within the Archeoscope, travellers can view scale models of the existing fortifications within the city of Bouillon and neighbouring France. The Archeoscope is often the first site visited by travellers—the historical education provided by the location readies the traveller for other site seeing adventures within the city.
Alternatively, travellers may also want to see the Ducal Museum, housing exhibits pertaining to the First Crusade to the present. English speaking, guided tours are offered at the Ducal Museum, and guests can take in the breath-taking sixteenth and seventeenth century architecture that this museum is famous for. Ultimately, the Ducal Museums is a source of historical exploration that the entire family can easily enjoy.
Of course, travellers seldom leave Belgium before sampling its world famous beer or visiting one of its breweries. While staying in Bouillon, travellers can tour the Le Marché de Nathalie, the city's single brewery; a brewery that brews well over 300 varieties of Belgium beer. Travellers are given the opportunity to sample some of Belgium's finest brews at the Le Marché de Nathalie.
Things to do:
The annual Falconry Demonstration that is offered between the months of April and August is called the Ballet de Rapaces. Offered three times daily, the Falconry Demonstration is a perk of visiting the Castle in Bouillon. The times for the Falconry Demonstration are set at 11:30 am, 2:00 pm and 3:30 pm respectively. Each show lasts approximately ½ hour, just a short time for travellers to see the beautiful falcons and their abilities.
Alternatively, many tourists find that they are drawn to the medieval architecture of Bouillon and such travellers may enjoy seeing the Chateau Fort. The Chateau Fort was established in the late 900's and was formerly owned by Godfrey of Bouillon. The Chateau Fort houses long, vast corridors, and dark dank dungeons for traveller exploration and the medieval charm of the Fort is truly unforgettable. Adults and children find the Chateau Fort incredibly interesting, and the guided tours—especially the nocturnal tours where guides walk tourist through the castle with lighted torch in hand—serve as an incredibly memorable experience. The Chateau Fort is accessible from 10 am to 6:00 pm and the cost of admission is nominal: 5.20 Euro and 3.50 Euro for children and adults respectively.
Food & Drink:
Travellers can enjoy a fine dining experience at the La Vieille Ardenne on Grand Rue, a café and restaurant that proudly offers catering facilities to the residents of Bouillon. The La Vieille Ardenne has an outdoor veranda and travellers can sit on the terrace while sampling one of Belgium's famous beers. Alternatively, the Auberge du Panaroma situated at Au dessus de la Ville 23 serves a fine selection of French cuisine, and is open every day except Monday and Tuesday.
Those travellers looking for fantastic Italian entrees can please their palate at La Rocca; located at rue du Petit 19 in Bouillon. La Rocca is open every day except for Monday and offers its guest live entertainment while they dine. Children's menus are available at La Rocca and the dining facility is handicapped accessible.
Meanwhile, travellers looking for a taste of Belgian cuisine will find precisely what they desire at La Baratin, located at Rue des Augustins 12. Open everyday of the week, except for Mondays and Tuesdays, La Baratin offers the best in Belgian dining. Popular entrees among travellers include frites, Flemish cabbage, Flemish Stew, mussels and chips, and a dessert consisting of Belgium's famous chocolates can finish off any meal. Again, beer, including the fruity, flavored variety is available in many cafes and restaurants throughout Belgium.
Hotels & Accommodation:
Logis De France Auberge D'alsace et Hotel de France
Hotel Cosy
Auberge d'Alsace Hotel de France
Hotel Panorama
Best Western Hotel La Porte de France
Hotel La Ferronniere
Hostellerie La Pommeraie
Entertainment:
Bouillon is a suitable city for those travellers looking to partake in outdoor recreations. From hiking to cycling, from kayaking to mountain biking, Bouillon is a prime destination for the outdoor enthusiast. Travellers can engage in motor biking through the Ardennes or travellers can take advantage of canoeing adventures on the River Ambleve or on the River Ourthe, as well as other rivers in Belgium. There are a number of kayaking tour guides available thorough Belgium and they are skilled guides ready to help travellers make the most of their adventures while staying in Bouillon and other regions of Belgium.
Meanwhile, those travellers that love nothing more than a good shopping excursion can really enjoy all of the flea markets and outdoor markets strewn throughout the Belgium countryside. Many German antiques can be purchased at flea markets and the like, and travellers may be pleasantly surprised by the incredible deals they find while shopping in Bouillon. In the end, Bouillon poses appeal to every traveller; both children and adults alike. Bouillon offers entertainment and fun for everyone. With its rich history, site seeing opportunities, fine dining selections and recreational pursuits, Bouillon makes and ideal place to visit or live in.
Biography:
Author: Meredith Booney
Website: http://www.belgiumcities.info Meredith Booney is a freelance travel writer with over 20 years of experience writing for travel journals, newspapers and magazines. Belgium Tourist Information
Tips of collecting Ticket and Stubs
Collecting tickets is an exciting and rewarding area of collecting. Collectors research tickets to enhance the value. Tickets are issued for sports events, movies, music concerts, dances, museums and in cities and countries throughout the world.
Tickets help promoters keep track of attendance, receipts and to comply with tax and safety laws. Tickets come in different shapes, sizes and colors; from detailed beautiful artist drawings to plain computer generated tickets. Many tickets have photos of athletes, stadiums, team logos, date, game number, city, seat location and title of event. All of these factors contribute to the value of a ticket. Many stadiums like the Fleet Center in Boston are scanning tickets to Bruins and Celtics games return the full ticket to the fans for safe keeping.
Concert ticket stubs are wonderful collectibles. Like show flyers, handbills, posters, programs and other rock memorabilia, old tickets are colorful, fun and mark musical moments in our culture. Some people pasted them into scrapbooks as a memento after a favorite concert. Others discarded them as soon as the show was over. Of course these two acts help determine how hard the ticket is to find today.
There are many types of ticket collectors. Music star tickets are in demand such as Elvis, The Beatles, Frank Sinartra, and others.
Other areas of ticket collecting are:
Presidential Elections,
Foreign, railroads,
Gambling and movie tickets.
Collecting Sports Tickets
All sports basketball, football, hockey, boxing, Olympic, tennis and wrestling issue tickets. Sports tickets are issued at the major, minor and the armature level. Many ticket collectors base their area of interest on a theme such as, city, team, player, or event.
Others collect All-Star, Play-Off, World Series, pennant clinching, Opening Day, championship regular season games and first games or last game of a team. Also in demand are tickets from record-breaking games like Clemens twenty strikeouts, Ted Williams batting .406, commemorative tickets issued by teams to mark special events, and games were players reach milestones like 500 home runs, 3,000 hits or strikeouts, 300 wins, four homeruns in one game or no-hitters.
In 1998, when Mark McGwire was chasing Roger Maris 61 homerun record collectors were hot chasing tickets from every game McGwire hit a homerun. This happened again in 2001, when Barry Bonds broke the homerun record. These two homerun races drove up the demand, interest and the price of tickets in general as more collectors begin collecting tickets. Collecting tickets is popular but still has room for growth as people realize the fun and beauty of tickets.
Tickets Are Scarce
Ticket stubs are connected to the game. It is something tangible left after the game is a memory. Ticket stubs are usually more valuable then programs as tickets (except general admission) list the date of the game, while a program could be for a series of games.
Tickets are scarce and limited to seating capacity. The scarceness of ticket stubs translates to money value. Even a stub from the 1952 Boston Braves season is scarce. Total attendance for the Boston Braves 1952 was about 250,000 people. How many of those 250,000 people saved a ticket? Two thousand? How many tickets exist today? Two hundred? Twenty? The Red Sox out draw that now in a week. Scarcity adds value to the price of a ticket stub. When you add the historical significance of event the value can really jump.
No Accurate Price Guide For Tickets
The value of a ticket is harder than a card to figure out. There are publications that list prices for World Series, All-Star and Super Bowl Tickets but these guides are general pricing tickets according to decade. For example, every ten years older in age a ticket may go up $25 in value. A 1960's World Series Ticket is $125, a 1950Õs ticket is $150, a 1940"s ticket is $175 and so on.
For most tickets there is no price guide. Tickets are less collected, researched and sold than cards. Most prices are gathered by tracking ticket sales in hobby advertisements and auctions, which are incomplete and out dated given the sudden changes in the market place.
Ticket prices are varied and full of gaps. It will take the new collector time and effort to find their bearings. New tickets from this year All-Star, World Series or Super Bowl are expensive as people pay $100-$3,000 to attend the event and often keep the ticket. Tickets stubs from these recent events sell for about $150 a ticket stub. Even these stubs are worth the price considering the scarcity, beauty and significance.
New collectors need to learn all they can about ticket collecting. A related field is season ticket passes, press passes and lifetime passes which are rare and given to ex ball players and executives.
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Australian Holiday Season Good for Business and Pleasure
September 15, 2006, Victoria, Australia---With the holiday season fast approaching, more and more tourists are flocking to Australia for a different taste of winter. Since the country sits snug in the Southern Hemisphere, the Australian winter is actually the friendly reversal of Europe's and the U.S.'s version of deep frost and snowstorm. With a warm, favorable winter such as Australia's then, it isn't surprising that people who come there either for business or pleasure have every reason to, if not stay, return next year.
The Australian holiday is luring thousands of backpackers as well as business people. Tourists are taking advantage of the country's holiday maker scheme wherein they are given opportunity to work temporarily and earn in Australia, with equal pay as any Australian employee.
Businesspeople, on the other hand, are wising up on the extended opportunities Australia's holiday can give their businesses. Even before harsh winter sets in and forces them out of their own countries, investors, senior executives, businesspeople of all kinds are already planning their trips to sunny Australia. To tend their branch offices in the land down under, perhaps do some marketing research, or set-up possibilities.
Australia's favorable winter for business has, for a time, been unfairly unrecognized; people have come to equate Australia with vacation. But Australia's brisk economy is soaring higher than ever before. What tourists and businesspeople alike are discovering for themselves is that, in Australia, they can actually mix business with pleasure.
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