Holiday Inn Airport Diegem

... to the hostel). Bruges was just absolutely incredible all the way through.

At the train station, we had one final waffle at Haagen Daz, then boarded the TGV high-speed train to get back to Paris. Our trip had a bit of a rocky start, but our tour of the VanAcker homeland was definitely a rousing success. A strange thing that I noticed was how much I've already started to think of France as a comfortable home base. After dealing with the craziness that ...

... we (I) planned out our itinerary for the next day.

This weekend taught me that traveling is actually pretty tiring, walking is a great excuse for eating as much chocolate and waffles as possible, and I should probably get a bigger memory card for my camera. I split this trip into this intro, then our day trip to Bruges on Saturday, and our time sightseeing in Brussels as separate entries...so read on!

... They were perfect little children, except for one thing: They argued with each other constantly.
Veronica got home at 4:30 p.m. today. David gave her a big kiss and a hug. Then her kids gave her a kiss and a hug. She went upstairs and changed into shorts and a T-shirt. When she returned, the kids were waiting for her in the living room to talk about their day in school.
Marvin, 10, said ...

... horse sausage, I was simply fit for nothing else but rest. I cired UNCLE UNCLE and Chris took me home. It's now well past 9pm and I'm bushed. OH! I nearly forgot. Somewhere in our adventures, we stopped at a local bakery. Oh my...there are no sufficient words to describe the beauty that one can behold in a Belgian French Bakery. Even the air is fabulous! The chocolate croissants?! Oh please...that's all I can say. Auvier for now.

... and vintage resale shops. I have to go inside one vintage resale shop, it has old dolls in the window and I can see very old chandeliers hanging inside, the kind that originally had candles in them before there was electricity. The shop smells like it has very old collectables in it. I am surprised the prices are quite reasonable. But thinking about the whole weight limit thing at the airport, I know I cannot buy anything. I really just wanted to get a glimpse of what people had ...

Voilà, j'ai eu toutes les confirmations de réservations d'hôtels. A Chiang Mai, l'hôtel était full. l'agence de réservation en ligne (wired-destinations.com pour ne pas le citer) a proposé un hôtel +/- équivalent: le maninarakorn. Pour Krabi: Tonsai bay resort accessible par bateau (long-tail boat, Railay). Toujours pas de nouvelles du chemin de fer. En plus, sur le site du chemin de fer, je vois qu'il n'y a plus de place en 1ère classe couchette. On va se la jouer petites gens en ...

... And some of the photos are hilarious. These are two of my favourites. There are so many others that it's hard to choose! The leaving drink with my colleagues was also great. I'll treasure that a long time. It's not often where you can consider your colleagues as friends - but that's how I've felt. I think it shows in this ...

... more people, all of whom were very kind, and many of whom know my granddad personally and sent me along with their well wishes. Pierre took me into town to grab a bite-we had boulettes, Belgian meatballs-and then back to the train station. The following day, I headed to Brussels and walked around freely. It's a pretty small city, so I was able to do a lot of the major sites on foot. Some highlights: Mannekin Pis, a famous ...

... entertainment. So now - back to studio. It seems like every person in the group had trouble getting back into the swing of things this morning. I think that we all took for granted our two weeks off from schoolwork & were in no way eager to get back to the figurative drawing board. The good thing is that we have studio here in the hostel, so unlike Seville, we don't have to ride ...

... workings of the EU. It was terrible! We went to the Snack Snake for lunch (how stupid of a name is that....definitely one of those that was lost in translation, but has really good paninis) and then slugged through the remainder of the day. I went to sleep pretty early that night since I had work in the morning. HA HA HA... "work" My third day at NATO was strikingly similar to the first two....I did absolutely nothing but read the Financial ...