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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Brussels, Belgium by TravelPod blogger Gracielastanley. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Roadtrip to Luxembourg, Belgium and Amsterdam "One of the rare things that is cheaper in Europe than in the US is air travel. Not always. But it is possible to fly very cheaply with discount airlines from country to country throughout Europe. One such airline is Ryanair and I recently took advantage of this and took a long weekend trip with friends to Belgium, Luxembourg and Amsterdam. A round-trip ticket from Montpellier to Brussels cost me less than 90 dollars! Monica, Kelly and I flew from Montpellier a couple of weeks ago to Brussels where we picked up a rental car at the airport (VW Golf Plus, very nice car) and headed straight for Luxembourg City. I didn't know much about Luxembourg except for that it is tiny, shares borders with three other countries (France,Germany, Belgium) and that it is supposed to be freakishly clean. If I'm honest I have to say I still don't know much about Luxembourg except that it is populated mostly by French, that it's damn cold and that they actually have their own language called Luxembourgish. Frenchand German are also official languages. Apparently Luxembourg has a highly developed economy with the second highest GDP per capita in the world. More importantly--to me anyway--about Luxembourg is that it was the first place I ever tried "couch surfing:" This is going to sound...