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Louvain-la-Neuve

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'''Louvain-la-Neuve''' is a little [[Belgium|Belgian]] city between [[Brussels]] and [[Namur]], on the E411 motorway.
Louvain-la-Neuve is a town small city sitting an half hour south-east of Brussels. It was build around to house the Université Catholique de Louvainafter the luingistic quarrels in the 60's between the flemish and the french-speaker . There are around 15about 11.000 peoples who lives there inhabitants and around 20.000 who studiesstudents. The tiny city-center is only made for all pedestrians. If you stay during the week (exept during the summer holidays) you will discover might take part to the incredible student-partiesall night long. One beer cost around 0.80€ in the "cercles" (students pubs).
== Hitchhiking out ==
There are a lot of possible destinations from Louvain-la-Neuve (e.g. : [[Brussels|Brussel]], [[Namur]] and [[Luxembourg]] by E411 motorway, [[Mons]], [[Paris]] via Nivelle by RN25 motorway). There are two main hitchhike spot in LLN: the first is on the beginning of the RN25 and the second, on the "Esplanade"-cross-pointroundabout, to go on the E411 motorway. Each spot is about 10 min walking for the city center.
To go south towards North (Brussels > use a sign "BXL") or South (Namur, Luxembourg and Namur, please stand behind France) : from the city center walk all the way up to the signposts at roundabout of the "Esplanade"-cross-point and try to attract cars passing in the TWO car lanes beside you(shopping center). Up While walking along the roadBoulevard de Wallonie, there is you'll see a big petrol station , but you better walk a little longer and stand on the roundabout behind the sign "E411 Bruxelles". It is THE perfect enlightened spot to go either north or south (around 20 KMroad splits a little further). This is You may definitely meet other hitchhiker... If don't want to stay in Namur but rather go further south, ask the last one on driver to drop you at the road before roundabout of Namur centre exit. Same kind of spot... To go to Mons, Paris stand at the city beginning of Namurthe RN25.The spot is not that great, but it works!
== Sleeping ==

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