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Brussels
... van Brussel (then main park) and made our way back to the city centre past the Cathedral once again. It was enjoyable roaming the streets. Soon our feet were sore so we came across the Rooster Bar and had a drink or two of Hoegaarden and Belle Vue, attempted to use local language when communicating with the locals (merci was our vocabulary to begin with!), before having some Asian noodles for tea (so not Belgian but oh we'll!). After dinner we ...
Giving Sprouts a Bad Name...
... travelling the world as a singer on top quality cruise liners (albeit Shelley's last ship, and the one we wer due to board next week, is presently lying on its side near the island of Giglio) and does not find even a modicum of amusement in flying by the seat of their pants.
The day had started well enough with the simple enough task of catching the train from Bruges to Brussels, but started to go downhill when the planned train from Brussels to ...
Indifferent Capital of the EU
... cleaning up, we headed toward the Grand Place for some food. Along the way, we passed, of all places, a Chi-Chi's Tex-Mex franchise. Boy, a margarita sounds good right now. But, we're in Brussels where mussels and frites are the standard meal. Once at Grand Place, we found street after street of small restaurants all touting what appeared to be the exact same menu. There was no real way to determine which, ...
Brussels!
... got a reservation for a train that left an hour later than I had intended.
We arrived in Brussels and managed to catch our train to Diegem with only 30 seconds to spare. (Diegem is a little outside Brussels...it was cheaper to stay there.) The hotel we were staying at was actually cheaper than what it would have cost to stay in a hostel! We got off the train and there was like no one in sight. Daniel said that maybe the end of ...
Never eating chocolate again. ever.
... busses that wound up being really late. For the entire trip, the school had rented a coach bus and since there are only 28 people in our class, including Mr. Rollins, we were all able to take multiple seats for ourselves to lie down and sleep each time we drove anywhere. We arrived in Aachen that night and got all checked into our hotel. It was so nice to be in a hotel instead of a hostel finally because it was ten times nicer and we felt so much more comfortable. We had a ...