Best Western Premier Keizershof Hotel
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The list
... want to do with my life right now is back up my hard drive, sort out music and photos, organize a massive pile of papers and buy some tiny shower gel. Just so I can cross it off THE LIST. As usual, I'm gonna need a vacation to recover from preparing for this vacation. Convenient how that works, huh? Although 'vacation' probably isn’t the right word for what I'll be doing. Once you pass the four week mark, you’re not really ...
Four weeks to go...
... as I'm telling you, because it still seems a bit surreal. Ninety days is difficult to envision, especially when those days are under the fluid influence of random encounters, delays, spur-of-the-moment decisions and the incessant need for sleeping arrangements in a country the vastness of which boggles my tiny Belgian mind. I can picture those eleven days in New York, and after that I'll be in the capable hands of a TrekAmerica tour leader for ...
Why this trip?
... cultural exports followed. Us Belgians briefly got introduced to Jerry Springer and Judge Judy. And what about those early Louis Theroux documentaries about bodybuilders, porn actors or Nazi sympathizers? To a girl growing up in tiny, sensible Belgium, the U.S. seemed like a weird, wonderful, massive, faraway place. Learning about its electoral system, Bill Clinton and Bush v. Gore later on did little to dispel that notion.
And then there was the language. I ...
Brussel's Sprouts
... so they could be well rested for our first day in Munich. Us boys however had other plans. It was after all Talk Like A Pirate Day. While we were in the Delirium Cafe the day before,Jordan spotted an add for a pirate themed Rum Bar, so we decided that on Talk Like A Pirate Day, we would have to visit it. So we did. I had pre-packed an eye-patch just for this day, and I dug it out put it on, and headed off the the rum bar. The bar had over 300 different kinds of rum. Sean, you ...
Brussels by Belgians
... I began nibbling on it as soon as I got out the door, and nibbled on it all day. I was pretty amused that I was carrying cheese around alternately in my pocket and my purse.
Now, on to enjoying the rest of the city.
I wandered around town, pretty aimlessly for a while. The architecture in the city is so neat and varied! There are some very ornately decorated buildings, especially at the main square. There are also some more ...