Comfort Hotel L'Univers Liège

... wasn't my favourite day of the trip so far would not be an exaggeration. My host family, especially Goele, were fantastic though, and really supported me throughout. Another host family, the Bijnens family, have also been great, visiting and organising things, and I also had a visit today from my first host-mother, Nicole.<br><br>I spent the night in hospital, with some blessed IV painkillers, and they also started some IV antibiotics. On Wednesday morning I was still in pain, so ...

During our stay in Spa we had the most scary, horrible, unpleasant experience ever in a restaurant.<br><br>The restaurant to avoid is "Le Bouchon Gourmand", the owner does not hesitate to insult customers, lock them into the restaurant if there is a dispute on the bill, and claim more money than is due. <br><br>See more on www.bouchon-gourmand.blogspot.com

... take me so we can move the mattress in. I am probably going to have to move the rest of my stuff with the bus tomorrow, but it should be ok. I only have class until 1pm, so I will have the rest of the afternoon free. Tomorrow I need to figure out internet for the new place, move in, and hang up my proofreading flyers.<br><br>When I left this morning, I knew that I had tons of stuff to do, and I also just knew that none of it would work ...

... account<br>4 THEN go to school and teach a class completely by myself about utopian society <br>5. then come back and look for a mattress<br>6. call Nil when I find a mattress so she can help me move it in<br>7. come back here and pack up my stuff and take some it to the new place.<br><br>sometime gotta find time to<br><br>1. get signed up for internet so I can write to you all at my new ...

After popping into and out of Germany, we were now back in Belgium. It was beginning to get a bit dark, and we still had at least 200 miles left to drive.<br><br>Gaz's motor was struggling, and threatening to overheat, so we stopped to let it cool down.<br><br>With the vehicles all decorated with stickers, we attracted a bit of attention, and a Belgian couple took our ...

Once in Elsloo, we stopped to find postcards (having completely missed the observations again), only to find that the only card shop was closed that afternoon.<br><br>Up the road a bit, and Kieran was dropping a card into the door of a Landy enthusiast they had met on the recce. The guy turned up at that moment, and so we were invited in for a refreshing cold drink. The Landyprikkers overtook us at that point, and went on their way. We then ...

... from the French railways. The trains look the same, they run over the borders without a bat of an eyelid. I think the biggest difference is that French railways are called SNCF but the Belgian ones are called SNCB. Just wandering out in streets for a quarter of an hour to get some food, from a little shop, I didn't recognise any difference between this town and a French town. Perhaps if I stayed a ...

... doing. During breaks and lunch though, our 'cupboard' was the place to be for the teachers! They all hung out in there and ate biscuits and chatted to me about the english school system which they loved the sound of, one teacher even said it 'was a dream'! (tad overdramatic, but I do prefer the english system) In the evenings we did average teenage stuff, nothing over cultural! We went to the Maison du Peket in Liège one night where our partners insisted we all ...

I left Normandy for Bruge to meet the Belgians friends who i met in Egypt. Nancy and Jan. The day before i was to leave i bought a ticket to Bruge. The ticket said "liege centrum'"; or something i like that. I thought that was the name of Bruge station in French, Danish or Flemish or whatever they speak in Belgium. The train went back to Paris, I almost went back to ...

... edge of the town centre there were a number of different animal statues set around the bottom of an old concrete enclosure. After coming across a dog-like creature with a striped back, we jokingly pronounced it to be a Tasmanian Tiger, looking up at us in recognition of spotting two of his own. Despite the uncanny resemblance we dismissed it as something more European, like a fox or a wolf or something, until with ...