Ok, doing a bit of homework, is anyone else thinking about it?... Not booking anything till I have tickets mind. and I am happy to let someone drive and share costs lol.

Either Thursday evening or early Friday 9th July train to Brussells from St Pancras about £40 - then I think train from Brussells Zuid (midi where Eurostar arrives) to Leuven (about 25 mins) timetable on www.b-rail.be/main/E/ . Then according to the livenation ticket site they put on a shuttle service to the gig (and hopefully after back or will be a bit stuck!).

Then stay the night in Leuven, Saturday morning, get the train back to Brussells, Eurostar from Brussells to Lille (was £16.50 when I looked) Depart 11:29 - 12:02
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This is where I come unstuck but think a train is about 40 mins and 10 euros to arras - looked here http://www.voyages-sncf.c...llet-train - don't speak French but kind of self explanitory (I think), then I guess it'd have to be stay the night in Arras before getting back to Lille and Eurostar back to London. (about £40).

I've not even touched accomodations, that's enough pipe-dreams for one session!
Times etc would depend on start times of the gigs, couldn't see any information on them.

Edit - due to me being a moron and getting the dates the wrong way round, the trip would be the reverse of above! 9th = France 10th = Belgium!
[Edited 4/20/10 15:11pm]

eggy said:

Absolutely up for this, but aren't the gigs the other way around? Train all the way to Arras on Fri (via Lille), and back via Louvain?

eggy said:

eggy said:

do u r homework again.
He first play in arras and than in belgium ))

haha, what a moron I am lol! I looked up the dates about three times too!!

Well yes, the opposite way around then, same sites and I imagine cost applies!

Check www.raileurope.co.uk for the non-Eurostar trains, e.g. Lille-Arras. That one for instance should be no more than £8.

Also, note that booking two separate tickets (London-Lille and Lille-Arras) is significantly cheaper than one ticket London-Arras, for some reason.

lol

after that-not sure YOU should be organising.....

but seriously-im hoping (if i get decent tix) to do the Arras show only

from the UK-but deffo only the french show-then home

Bliss I was thining of doing the same thing, but the sheer size of arras is alittle off putting as I dont fancy standing around for hours then being squashed to death by 40,000 insane Prince fans!





*misses O2 shows and aftershows*

Any local know a usual start / finish time for the French and Belgium dates?

Be helpful with looking at trains.

they'll be evening/night shows i imagine-so getting there around lunch/mid afternoon time should be cool.....

time for a couple of drinks and something nice to eat before the show....

there's gonna be a golden circle isn't there?

i had g circle tix for croks park-so if there are again

heres hoping.....

i am off work april 26th

polkadotbliss said:

Don't expect too much. Werchter is a small village and there are not many restaurants or lunch bars. You'll find a couple of pubs for sure with some of the finest beer in Europe. But during concerts the village is usually swamped with concert goers, many of them are very unrespectfull, so don't expect them to welcome you with open arms, aside from the eating and drinking facilities.

There are generally several food and drinks stalls at the entrance and inside, but prices are very steap.

Sounds great!!

pepper7 said:

It does.

Still contemplating whether to go or not. Belgium is looking very tempting!

catpark said:

The more I read about them the more I want to go to ALL of them!!!

You up for it!!!!

pepper7 said:

We'll have to sit down and work out the cost before anything!!
I do love Europe and festivals

http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr..._Bataclan/

just to get us all a bit more excited

catpark said:

I've decided, fuck it I'm going! Belgium is only up the road from London(i had to re-check where it was on the world map ) and its only a couple of hours train ride away!

catpark said:

Arras is looking tempting too