Domaine de la Chartreuse Liège

... I was just wondering what kinds of problems I was going to have and how many times I was going to look stupid with my German and how ****** off I was gonna be when I got back tonight. I was scared. But, surprisingly and much to my relief, everything worked out just splendidly!

I hope tomorrow will be just as successful as today.




PS - I don't even have to go to Oktoberfest-this weekend there is a music festival in Aachen!!!

Hi all,

Had a pretty lazy Sunday. I know that tomorrow is going to be very busy so I just wanted to relax today. Had apple strudel ala mode for lunch, haha. Then we had a turkish dish for dinner. It was chicken wings and sliced potatoes on a pan lightly smothered in tomato sauce with lots of spices and garlic. It was pretty good! I just dont like the skin or fat on chicken, and I dont like ...

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.

Gaz's motor was struggling, and threatening to overheat, so we stopped to let it cool down.

With the vehicles all decorated with stickers, we attracted a bit of attention, and a Belgian couple took our ...

... on.

We stopped at one point, because the roadbook wasn't very clear, at which point Gaz and Charlotte came up behind us. They had been left behind by the V8s, as they were in a Series vehicle, so we said we'd stick with them.
At this point, Kieran noticed a strange noise from our engine, which was duly investigated by James. It was diagnosed as the fan belt tensioning pulley. But we didn't do anything about it at the time.

lots to say.. where to begin?

On Friday we had a teacher outing to Stolberg. It is a very old city about 20 km from Aachen. We had a great time. The weather was very nice, for a change, haha. We first went out to lunch at a cafe. The food was pretty good, I had salmon and potatoes and salad. The only thing was we had to wait FOREVER (at least an hour) to get our food, and not everyone got their food at the ...

Wednesday Sept 16 8:23 AM

So I am sitting in my first class at school now. It's a German class. The students are supposed to be reading a story and I am trying to type very quietly…

I was busy yesterday. Well the day before yesterday I went to an office in Aachen like city hall and registered myself and my address . It was the first part of a two part process that I have to complete in order to stay here ...

... partially funded by the European Union I deciphered from the French inscription, verifying that this saucer fell to Liege courtesy of the EU's transportation initiatives budget along with miles of roads we drove on in Ireland and a patchwork of rail and road improvements across the continent. Eli and I navigated our way through a collection of generic warehouses and offices to a park along Liege's equally generic main boulevard where we stopped to admire yet ...

... but then again that could just be my britishness coming out! (If anyone reading this is wondering why he was kissing me, in Belgium it's completely normal to kiss someone on the cheek as a greeting, he was NOT cheating on his girlfriend!) The journey back was somewhat tearful, we all knew we were going to miss our partners, but it was also one of the girls' birthdays. So another who had been doing her work ex in a bakery had managed to get hold of the most amazing ...

We 'trundled down past Maastricht towards Germany. The deviations were big ones but we still were able to make good time! The scenery was worth the deviations though. We past by some wonderful little towns and river gorges. Very nice bit of countryside. Will have to return there sometime, God willing!

... a msg from the belgiums saying have a nice trip. So i assumed they werent going the wait the 2 hours it would take me to get to bruge. Stuff them i thought. I will go to brussels. It was getting late and the only trains to anywhere were really only to brussels. Not my fault i got given a ticket to liege. I got to brussells, found and found an internet cafe at 8pm.