Cocoon Hotel Belair Bourscheid

... br>The expo was next with 125 stalls set up with each country selling their tradition wares. So obviously Australian wine and SA boreworst had to be sampled.
Quotes:
'I have travelled from Australia to South Africa in 5 mins' Ed as we make the journey to get the next installment of Alcohol
'I am most difinately taller' Bri as her and Ross size each other up

Traditional lux meal of slow roasted pork or horse. Ed clearing any glasses on the bar ...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope everyone is having a great time eating turkey and watching football back home :). I'm in a country where we aren't subjected to the awful sport of football fortunately. Unfortunately they don't typically celebrate Thanksgiving either. Luckily I am reasonably close to one of my best friends from the states and we were able to celebrate turkey day in typical American fashion. This morning I travelled for 4 hours by train to ...

... sun was setting, and I was pretty tired, so I drove to Bastogne, and checked in to a hotel I like to use there, the Melba. It’s not expensive, right in the center of town, and has free wifi. Bastogne, of course, is where American troops, surrounded by the last-gasp German Arden Offensive (the Battle of the Bulge) around Christmas 1944, refused to surrender. When a German officer was sent in blindfolded to ask the Americans to surrender, General Anthony McAuliffe replied “ ...

... heard some Luxemburgish music and I liked it. Conrad worked on the computer to map our route for tomorrow while Karyn and I chatted. Spoogy sat in her lap for a bit and then made his way to mine. He is a very sweet dog! We all went to bed at 11 pm. I stayed up for an hour more to upload pictures while making a tent with my blanket. I hid under it because it was warmer that way! I drifted off to sleep at midnight.

Of course I needed to visit Luxembourg, hiding away there between France, Germany and Belgium. It is the fifith smallest country in the world. It is very hilly and surrounded by trees. The hostel is down at the bottom of a cliff, yay! The city of course is quite small, but it is surrounded by ruins and forest which makes it quite a unique city in amongst the hustle and crowds of all the other major cities. The people there speak French and their own language, Luxembourgish I suppose.

... for me God opened alot of doors and I was able to find cheap enough flights and trains to London and then Paris last minute, with a lot of help from mom and mel. I also got to use my last day of my eurailpass to go straight from Paris to Baden Baden (On the 14th, the day before it expires!) Monday... Packing and planning in the morning. Off on a VLM plane in the afternoon. Of course I had the largest guy in history sit next to me. But, before ...

... with all the adjacent buildings obstructing my vision. In those thirty minutes, I feel as if I was apart of cologne, I know we hadn't had enough time together to become acquainted, but it was as if we already knew each other. I hopped on my train towards Luxembourg with a hot chocolate in hand and a grin on my face. I arrived in Luxembourg fairly late, about 9pm. I didn't have a hostel reserved or picked out but my trusty book had an address and map of the only ...

... age here in the Lux is sixteen, somehow Chad and i found myself in a bar full of underagers - yep thats right fifteen year olds. Now I know that some of my mates talk up the "Youth Policy" but this was a bit extreme maybe even for them. Either way it was a lot easier than trying to out drink marines... Off to Antwerp today for D-Day. Wish us a heap of luck or send your donations to "Rick and Chad's 850 Euro excess Fund"

... small country, all the cartoons on TV and in the newspaper seemed to not have words, just gestures and sound. The weather was kind of grey, the food was good. We discovered Croque Monsieurs (like grilled cheese sandwiches with ham -delish!)

... Casemates - tunnels and chambers dug to further fortify Luxembourg city. Saw Notre Dame church and walked along the park at the bottom of the valley where we found an old church built into the side of the hill. Luxembourg is a beautiful medieval valley.