Balladins Confort Charleroi

... relaxed, then got dressed and headed for a night on the town!! We found this very cute and cool restaurant, where we sat upstairs looking right into the kitchen, which was perfect for Grace as she could spy on the hot Chef! We ate some more chips, had a drink, and then moved on to a pub that was a little crazy inside, so we got some drinks and sat outside under the heaters. After a couple of drinks there, we eventually decided ...

... as low as it had ever been. The fighting around Belleau Wood was not managed well; it was terribly confused with many soldiers in the dark forest not knowing exactly who was where. It is a testimony to the individual bravery of the soldiers who fought there that they continued the combat even under demoralizing conditions and extremely high losses. On June 6th alone, in that relatively small wood (about a mile square) over 1000 Marines ...

Yesterday I left the hotel by about 9:00 and drove about three and a half hours to Saint Avold. I was struck again as I drove, by how many wars have been fought over the parts of France through which I was driving and how many important historical events have occurred here. The drive roughly parallels the Western Front of WW I. I drove through the area of Château Thierry where Belleau Wood is located. That was a battlefield where American Marines distinguished themselves ...

BEWARE TRAVELERS! The Brussels CRL airport is not in Brussels! We got up early to fly to Dublin, and after 1.5 hrs of travel, found ourselves at the wrong airport; the other airport was 80 km away! Needless to say, we missed our flight. We took the train again, and spent the ...

... often lurking behind markets and unaware diners, are such comic favorites as Blondin and Cirage, Boule and Bill, and Odilon Verjus A Museum and a Shrine On the way back towards the Old City Center, a stop at the Belgian Comic Strip Center is in call. Located in a renovated and salvaged Art Nouveau building, the comic museum is to the comic book world what the Louvre is to the art world. This comprehensive museum is located ...

... to do things on their own, or else they don't want to. Likewise, any guy that does anything on his own is a weirdo. We are a very cliquey society, I conclude. My god, this is enlightening. It is so refreshing to see other people sat on their own in a place. Thing again actually, I do see girls or chaps on their own, reading or on their computers, in Borders, and in the Watershed. My analysis about our ...

... brewery. It's a very small and traditional one. The process was interesting, but the beer tasted absolutely awful to me. Artificial or not, I take the new methods over the old. And I ate some chocolate. And a waffle. Which pretty much wraps up all that is Brussels. Except french fried... never got around to it, but they're supposed to be good. Oh, one more thing... a lot of chocolate shops are little mom and pop type ...

... catch up with our group, and i had to throw it in my purse in a napkin. if i get caught here by drug dogs smelling **** in my purse i'm going to be a very unhappy girl. sex show was boring, the usual woman smoking a cigar with her amazing pelic floor muscles, and the random BJ's and gross sex. I was bored and drunk, and i started naming muscles that I could see bulging....around. how nerdy is that. yikes. then we ended the night full of se by ...

... runned by an Italian emigrants, and it was awfull: the floor of our room wasn't event plain, it was all up-and-down, and the fornitures were in a bad shape. We walked around in Charleroi, only to discover that, apart from the Grimbergen (beer) factory, some belgian comics characters' statue and a few parks, there was nothing intresting that you can reach by walking.

Easter weekend went to Brussells on the Eurostar with Fiona. Stayed at Vincent van Gogh hostel near Botanique. Checked out Mini Europe and the Atomium. Met a nice Egyptian guy called Abdel and his mate Jamal and hung out at a jazz club called Cafe LopLop. Wandered around the Town Square. In the evenings there is a classical music show with coloured lights bouncing off the gothic buildings. Cool atmosphere. Spent most of the weekend eating too much chocolate, drinking too much beer.