Hotel Akena La Louviere Mons

... night and off on my way the next day. So we had a coffee, then said goodbye and I ventured back to the hotel to grab my bag and find my hostel. Surprisingly it was really close and easy to find, so that was all good, and I relaxed and got myself organised for leaving the day after to go to Lübeck where I have relatives and where I would be staying for about a week before heading back to Milan to meet Mum, Dad and Sam again!<br><br>

Chris took me to Mons for a croissant and cafe' latte this morning and afterwards, he gave me a preview of the city. Each town has it's own church or cathedral and each one is spectacular. The church here (not a cathedral due to the lack of an arch bishop) is dedicated to a Countess of the region who later in life dedicated her wealth and time to build a convent where she also became a nun after raising her four children. The city of Mons was built around her convent ...

... inked itself a unique position within the world's literary cannon- Designating itself as, according to Alain de Kuyssche, "The Comic Book Capital of the World." More information Comics Fest: Early October in St. Gilles Town Hall. www.comicsfestivalbelgium.com Belgium Center of the Comic Strip: Rue des Sables 20, 02 219 19 80, www.comicscenter.net. Open 10am - 6pm Tue.-Sunday. Adm. 7.00 euro. (Ask for an English guide at the ...

... David, Antoine, and Edward run the team practices. Practice here is a lot different than college practice. It sorta reminds me of summer ball practices only much better. With college ball, things were pretty routine. Everyday we ran the same drills depending on what kind of practice it was. We were always in the same groups and could pretty much guess what was coming next. You would have to know the schedule we were on, the ...

... lifting of the Car d'Or on a paved area near the church of Saint Waltrude; tradition holds that this operation must be successful for the city to prosper. The Lumeçon fight, where Saint George confronts the dragon. The fight lasts for about half an hour, accompanied by the rhytmic "Doudou" music. The tradition of the processional dragon is listed among the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. With that said my fortunate ...

... personal travel interests. So here I am eight months later, about to embark on a new adventure in Europe for the entire summer. I havent been outside the walls of Belgium but I´ve already learned very much, made many friends, and seen many things. Thus so far, I have come up with my first blog, `the same, but different´. So lets start with the same... Belgium just like the states have cars, roads, houses, nightclubs, city, country ...

... all the women, so that they feel free to come out and do what they want. Yeah. Some guy has just walked past me, and coughed in my ear. I wonder if he thinks I'm a weirdo because - I'm a guy on my own? I'm sat writing in a book? I'm wearing ex-army trousers? My hair needs a cut? Well, **** him, I say. I don't care, and even if I did know - oops he's just walked past again - I wouldn't want to do ...

... the upper decks, it's huge in every sense. The map they give you is redundant, however, useless because it's all just in French and ridiculously complicated in arrangement. Yeah, 15ieme siecle I can understand, but not much else. Bring your student IDs, there are discounts to be had in this city! Change of plans, we never actually made it back to the museum, as we didn't even leave the house! It was raining so bad and we were ...

Update My preparations are going well, with some slight hiccups. Here is my present situation : - I am having a great time at the moment meeting lots of Hospitality Club (HC) members. First I had 3 Turkish people (Ersin with his mum and sister) and a Polish girl. After that I had Kinga and Asia from Poland, on their way to London and Venice. Then came Gosia and Maria from Poland (yes, it's Hotel Polonia at my ...

... a lovely garden. The highlight of Ypres was the "In Flanders Fields" museum, which uses modern technology to let us experience the horrors of WW1. The ticket also got us into three other museums, one of which had some good art work. Also moving was the five-minute ceremony of the Last Post, which has been played every night at 8 p.m. since the war ended (apart from a short time under Nazi occupation.) In Brugge we went to four museums, the best of which was the Groenige ...