Alpha Hotel Ostende

... more like 2500. My favourite beers were de Garre (local speciality sold exclusively at the pub of the same name - Dark flavourful and quite strong), Leffe, Westmalle Trappist, Bruges zot and bok. Whitney even gave in and sipped a few of my beers until we found one she liked!! It was a Raspberry fruity beer that was quite sweet.<br>Other than beer, we had to indulge in the other Belgian standards: Waffles, chocolate ...

... you can find out all you needed and wanted to know about the history of the french fry and how to properly execute the cooking of said fry. I think i took more pictures of this than of anything else in Brugge.<br><br>Fun fact: We Americans call it a French Fry because Belgian soldiers showed American soldiers how to make them in the war and they were speaking French, and it just stuck.<br><br>There is a church that I visited ...

... 8211; &#8216;Mannekin ****&#8217; I think his name is (everyone told me the statue was going to be smaller than I thought, so I thought it was going to be small.. but not that small?!) So Megg and I were wondering what the hell we were going to do for the rest of the day (we aren&#8217;t exactly 100% motivated to look at stuff anymore..) when Megg whacked me and yells &#8216;JAC!&#8217;. Yep, a familiar face &#8211; Megg bumped into her old housemate Jac, and ...

... It was still a very impressive sculpture though, as is all of Michelangelo&#8217;s work really! <br><br>It was time to go and see the Basilica of the Holy Blood after this, so we cycled our way over there. We have both become somewhat nifty on the treadlys over here! <br><br>When you go in there is a line of people waiting to see the vestibule, and it turns out what they do is let each person come up one at a time and put their hands on it and say a prayer. There is a lady ...

... and Child by Leonardo Da Vinci is housed &#8211; the &#8220;pointy church&#8221; from the movie. I may get lost again. In this town, that&#8217;s not so bad.<br><br>Off the wall observations: It seems that the Italians make the American look like seasoned, sophisticated tourists. They&#8217;re everywhere, they&#8217;re loud, and you definitely don&#8217;t want them in line in front of you. They&#8217;ll take a half hour arguing with ...

... into a chocolate store and get free samples during a chocolate-making presentation. By this point, I had introduced everyone in our group to the VanAcker family-style vacation, so we had walked basically over the entire area of Bruges and seen everything our Bible/Europe on a Budget had listed. For dinner, we were planning to eat at a place called the Hobbit (right next door to Tolkein &#8211; this place is great for nerds), but after walking around ...

... run all through the city. It was gorgeous. After that we stopped in a church really fast to see Michelangelo's Madonna and Child then we went to the local brewery to take a tour and get a free beer, walked around the city then went to pick up Josh.<br><br>If anyone is ever in Bruges there is this little restaurant that has all you can eat ribs for pretty cheap and right across the ...

... s just Belgian or a tourist. Seriously people, it's like the English and the French constantly bickering, and how long ago was that???? But it is the weirdest sense of dual-nationalism in one country --- or maybe the lack of? Although granted my friends are in the gradually more common but more often than not unique position of being tri-lingual, although the majority of people are bi-lingual if that. Sure maybe they learn the 'opposing' language in ...

... ste töötab vaid siis, kui laine lubab paadil õiget pidi püsida. Siis võetakse enda haardesse mingi kindel suplemisala ja ujudes väljaspool seda, vilistab vetelpäästja sind tagasi. Sama süsteemi järgi toimitakse ka USAs, st et palju inimesi väiksel alal, kus siis ujumine on välistatud, sest kellegi jalg võib "ootamatult" makku lüüa vms. Other than that, oli väga mõnus nädalavahetuse get-away.

... am really happy to stick around here. Which brings me to my next point..how long will I stay? My plans at the moment are to stay for about 6-8 weeks before moving on, but who really knows? If this place is a really good place to base myself and travel from, I might stay here for longer. Only time will tell. Anyway, if you want to know anything else about the job or what I am doing, post a comment and I will answer on the same message board. Ciao!