Information for participants

EGTT Working Session (9-10 March 2006)
and
EGTT Special Meeting (11 March 2006)
CAFÉ DE FIENNES
Brussels, Belgium
9–11 March 2006
Information for Participants
HOTEL AND CONFERENCE VENUE
The workshop will take place in the Café de fiennes - the sustainable lifestyle meeting place, which
is located close to the train station Brussels-Midi.
Address:
Café de fiennes - The sustainable lifestyle meeting place
Rue de Fiennesstraat 77
B-1070 Brussels, Belgium
Tel ++ 32 (0)2 469 41 20
Fax ++ 32 (0)2 469 41 21
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.cafedefiennes.be
HOTEL ARRANGEMENTS FOR PARTICIPANTS:
Participants are responsible to make their own hotel bookings. Suggestions for hotels in the
neighborhood, meaning max. 5-10 minutes walking distance from the meeting place:
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Hotel Agenda Midi (see http://www.hotel-agenda.com)
Hotel Aristote (see http://www.aristote-hotel.be)
Hotel Ibis Brussels Centre Gare Midi (see http://www.ibishotel.com/ibis/index.html)
Hotel Ustel (see
http://www.cybevasion.fr/hotels/monde/hotel_ustel_bruxelles_belgique_48922.html)
Next to those hotels, you have also in the city centre of Brussels plenty of choices. Please see
http://www.brusselsinternational.be/ and http://www.bookings.be. You can reach the city centre by metro or
railway in 10-15 minutes.
WORKING SESSION ORGANIZERS
The working session is organized by the UNFCCC in close collaboration with the Government of
Belgium. For substantive information concerning the working session please contact Mr. Bert van der Plas,
e-mail: [email protected], for logistical information please contact Ms. Gabriele Gerdom, e-mail:
[email protected].
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VISA FOR BELGIUM
The secretariat strongly advises early contact with the appropriate consular authorities to allow
sufficient time for the necessary visas (and transit visas) to be issued before departure.
DSA PAYMENT FOR FUNDED PARTICIPANTS:
All funded participants please bring you passport, flight ticket and boarding passes with you to the
meeting. These document need to be copied in order to make the DSA payment.
TRANSPORT
It is very easy to reach the centre of the City of Brussels (and the venue) with public transport.1
If you arrive by airplane in Brussels-National-Airport you take the train from there to Brussels-Midi (4 trains
each hour). For more information: please see http://www.b-rail.be/main/E/index.php.
1 In Belgium the Dutch and French languages are used. So, for your information:
• Brussels (ENG) = Brussel (NL) = Bruxelles (FR)
• South (ENG) = Zuid (NL) = Midi (FR)
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Bruxelles-Midi.Exit the station in the direction of ‘Tour du Midi’.
Follow Boulevard Paul-Henri Spaak (avenue with bus stops)
At the Place Bara (square) turn left.
Cross Place Bara and continue in the direction of the town hall.
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Exit the metrostation in the direction of ‘rue de La Clinique’
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Parking in the surrounding streets is free.
Do not leave any valuables in the car.
One can park below the Bruxelles-Midi train station too.
From 8 till 24 hrs. (14 Euros for a whole day).
The latter Parking spaces are under surveillance.
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From Gent: : follow Brussel-Centrum until you reach the
Koekelberg Basilica. Enter the tunnel and take the exit Sainctelette.
Position yourself on the far right lane, cross the bridge and
immediately take the street on the right that goes down to the canal.
Follow the“Ring” until you reach the last traffic light before
the overhanging railway bridge of the Bruxelles-Midi train station.
Turn right in boulevard Jamar. Cross Place Bara and continue straight
on until you are almost at the Anderlecht town hall.
From Leuven: Follow rue de la loi until the Arts-Loi junction.
There, take a left and enter the tunnel. Immediately after
the railwaybridge turn left. Take boulevard Jamar, cross Place Bara
and continue straight on until you are almost at the town hall.
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Option 1: When taking exit 16 (Sint-Pieters Leeuw – Anderlecht)
from the ring road.
You follow the Chaussée de Mons in the direction of the city centre.
Across the canal, underneath the bridge immediately take a sharp
left (there is a road sign indicating the centre). Then keep following
the tramcar tracks (ignore the city centre signs), you reach
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café de fiennes
the sustainable lifestyle meetingplace
de Fiennesstraat 77 Rue de Fiennes 1070 Anderlecht
T 02 469 41 20 | 0475 96 47 21 F 02 469 41 21 www.cafedefiennes.be – [email protected]