Hostellerie Le Prieure De Conques - Chateaux Et Hotels Collection Sainte-Cecile

... arrived on time. The sky was overcast most of the way so there wasn’t much to see, and the plane was very full in any event, so I couldn’t see much from my aisle seat. Since I had officially left from France, there were no formalities on arrival.

I picked up my rental car, a Renault Clio (diesel), which is much larger than the early models used to be. I left immediately for the Sedan area about 3 ½ hours to the north-east, stopping briefly for lunch on the roadside ...

We woke up in Aachen this morning and decided to drive through the back roads to Belgium and pay a visit to Bastonge, were thousands of soldiers as ell as civilians died during WWII's Battle of the Bulge. The only real reminders are a Sherman Tank sitting in the middle of town and and the memorial ...

Nice country drive throughout the Verdun region to the little village of Stenay, where there is a council platz with washing machines etc, in a picturesque setting next to a canal. The whole area is scattered with monuments to the Americans, and with a large cemetery. It seems as though no Frenchman would need to mouth off at the ...

... Mayo based sauces. Very tasty. Cold, wet and well fed we continued to the belgian border over some severe ups and downs. Then as it began to get late we asked a nice lady where we could find a campsite. She said 15 km down the road. Perfect, we thought. At about 7 km down the road a pretty heavy storm hit and that's where you see me waiting it out under a tree.

Every time I count the number of days I say wow... SO this week: Monday and Tuesday: fairly ineventful, science interro (failed, fairly sure 5/42 is the best possible mark I can get for that) and suprise interro in history, interpreting a painting of napoleon...pft. That was more an exercise of how well I can use my dictionary but "no panic" - c'est pas grave! Tuesday lunchtime went shopping for lollies and shiz to take with us on retraitre, and boy did we stock up ...

... Brothers" were also filmed in this area. We went on a guided tour of several memorials situated throughout the outskirts of the town. Our tour guide was a native Luxembourger whose father was forced into service in the German army during WWII. He was extremely informative, but also displayed obvious bitterness towards the Nazis. One thing that I have really come to learn here in ...

... little children holding baskets of waffles!! We were SO EXCITED about this, because one of our goals was to eat Belgium waffles from Belgium. We already were able to meet one of our goals. Maga seemed amused over how excited we were. They ended up being absolutely delicious and amazing. Later that afternoon we walked around Bettembourg with Maga for about 2 hours. I took ...

... during and after we raked, sang and walked could indicate just how hot it was! we took it in turns to rake the coals from a blazing wood pile to a rectangle of glowing coals about 4x5 metres. i was sure that i had lost my eyebrows to the heat as I raked the coals. As it was a ceremony we didn't take any photos that evening but I did get a shot of the charred remains of our once firey coals. Left aligned photo tag:

Thursday night we all went bowling with one of the hostel staff girls and it was a lot of fun! They had a great mix of music going and in combination with slippery bowling floors we had a dance night going at the same time. I even video'd myself getting a strike. Props! Anyway, so after bowling came Friday. I stayed in Leuven (by choice this time) and we ended up finding a pool...with slides...2 and a half. So we went down the slides for about 3 or ...

... raha Belgia kasumiks andma.

Aga pood iseenesest oli natsa väiksem kui Chicagos, kuid mööblivalik nagu igalpool, samasugune. Leidsin palju asju, mis mul endalgi kunagi ostetud sai ja USAsse maha jäi. Paljud asjad on just kaugemalt vaadates hästi lahedad, aga lähedalt silmitsedes kas plekist või plastmassist :D No aga külalised ei peagi ju kõiki asju kodus käperdama, eks!