Travel and Accomodation
Accomodation
The Organizing Committee advises the Novotel hotel.
Travel
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Arrival by plane in Zaventem airport:
There are direct trains from Zaventem Airport to Leuven (~20 minutes travel time), every half hour on weekdays and every hour in the weekend. Taxis wait at the arrivals area. See the national train service website for more detailed information: http://www.b-rail.be/main/E/
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Connection with Amsterdam (ICCR 2010):
Thalys (Amsterdam - Brussels) followed by train (Brussels - Leuven)
General Information
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The currency in Belgium is the Euro.
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Belgium is in the central european time zone, which is GMT+2h during summer. Click here to see the current time: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/gmt-plus-2/
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Leuven is situated in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium (Flanders), at about 25 km east of Brussels.
