Hotel Creusen Epen

... and it was despensing mineral water! haha something I have never seen before.

So the lady said that I should have electricity by tomorrow. I am going to pay 25 euros a month, flat rate. At the end of my usage they will calculate how much I actually used and ask me for more money or give me some back, depending on if I payed too much or too little each month. I am going to try to use my 'lectric sparingly so I can get money back at the ...

... and got a few things checked off of the list: Met with the rental guy and looked at the apartment and took some pictures of the apartment, then went to the bank and finished my damage deposit account and set it up so my rent will automatically be paid on the last day of every month.

I decided that I won't be able to go to Oktoberfest, at least not in Munich this year, anyway. I will try to go to another festival somewhere ...

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4 THEN go to school and teach a class completely by myself about utopian society
5. then come back and look for a mattress
6. call Nil when I find a mattress so she can help me move it in
7. come back here and pack up my stuff and take some it to the new place.

sometime gotta find time to

1. get signed up for internet so I can write to you all at my new ...

... They told us we were at the highest point in Belgium, which was somewhere in the Nature Park.

We decided to call it a day for the roadbook, and make a detour to just get into Luxembourg for fuel, and to make sure we 'did' all the countries.

Looking back that detour cost us some time, but did mean we visited Luxembourg, even if it was too dark to see it.

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.

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 ...

... and everything.

Then today I picked up my key for the new place. Not sure when I am going to move in, yet. The apartment is furnished with a bed and closet and everything, but it doesn't have a mattress. I don't want to move my stuff in there until I can sleep there, too. I will have to buy a mattress soon, about 50 Euros should do it.

Pics of the new apartment will be up soon.

Tonight Nil ...

... and not pay taxes. It was pretty easy, I just had to show my passport and give a little information. I then got a welcome packet with a city map and lots of coupons to use all over the city.

One of the coupons was a monthly bus ticket. So yesterday I took the card to the main bus station (Bushof) to get it activated. I can use the card to ride the buses and trains all over Aachen and the surrounding cities and also to ...

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!

... information office had closed. There were internet cafes all over the place, so I let google be my guide. This, it transpired, was both serendipitous and a mistake. The internet told me, in all good faith I´m sure, that the nearest campsite was 25km away, and that there were only three hotels in the town and that they were fully booked. I happened to have arrived in the middle of the world equestrian games, so the town was heaving with horsey people. I set ...

... used to tell me I resembled a tyrannosaurus rex because my arms are much too short for my body. He used to laugh that I couldn't even reach my hands down into my pockets. Well, just like a puny-brained dinosaur, I have been slow to adapt to a new way of hitchhiking here in Europe. You can't just stand on a highway on-ramp here, because most drivers aren't bold enough to pull over where they're not supposed to or where there may not be space. You have to go to ...