Hotel Hors Chateau Liège

... legal prac here in Belgium and must now stay longer to complete that. I will be here for at least another week and a half. I am so happy this happened in Belgium, though, where the health system is efficient and friendly (if not always brilliant at explaining things), where I could at least speak the language, and had friends to support and visit me (thanks for the phone call today too Guy!), and not somewhere else along the road up to now, where, despite speaking the language a bit ...

During our stay in Spa we had the most scary, horrible, unpleasant experience ever in a restaurant.<br><br>The restaurant to avoid is "Le Bouchon Gourmand", the owner does not hesitate to insult customers, lock them into the restaurant if there is a dispute on the bill, and claim more money than is due. <br><br>See more on www.bouchon-gourmand.blogspot.com

... even though this seems too good to be true)<br><br>From the electric company (STAWAG) I got out my handy dandy map and notebook with addresses to the mattress companies (aunt lena, I use that little red notebook every day). I got on the bus a rode to the mattress company, it was right on a corner, couldn't miss it. I went in and the sales dude showed me a couple different mattresses, all around 100 euro. I saw on the webiste that I could ...

... br>2. hang up my flyers advertising my excellent proofreading skills (trying to make a little money on the side)<br>3. make a copy of my new apartment key for landlord<br>and and and...<br><br>WHEW!! all of this stuff has to get done sometime, I guess. I am just glad things are finally starting to come together, or at least they will have a little more by tomorrow night.<br><br>Going to bed for now!

... They told us we were at the highest point in Belgium, which was somewhere in the Nature Park.<br><br>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.<br><br>Looking back that detour cost us some time, but did mean we visited Luxembourg, even if it was too dark to see it.<br>

... on.<br><br>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.<br>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.<br>

... retain, as the small fish in the neighborhood of political and economic powerhouses. Twisting along Liege's tree-lined main street we arrived at what we reasonably assumed to be a tourist information office, titled Liege Bureau de Tourisme. The office turned out to be some sort of travel consultancy for businesses based in Belgium and had not interest in assisting foreign tourists. After receiving directions in quick, perturbed French to the proper tourist office ...

Ok, well I'm still in Belgium, but going to France in the next couple of days... (well that's the plan, but things don't really go to plan!!) I've been staying with Louise and her family for the past week. I've been to a few Christmas markets and totaly love them, there are so many cute things to buy and yummy things to eat. I went to Leige (into the city) with Louises brother, and climed the 'mountian', the climb up nearly killed me but the ...

... to all that Dutch colonial imperialism in the then Dutch East Indies a few centuries ago, spotting Indonesian restuarants in the Netherlands was about as difficult as spotting druggies at a rave party. And if this particular restuarant is indicative of the others then finding a superb meal is no more difficult &#8211; even though the Dutch menu didn&#8217;t give us too many hints on exactly what we were choosing.

... that was going so slow that i missed the train to liege from there. I had to wait an hour and then got another train to Liege which was expensive for such a little ride (15euro). And sadly I was stuck for an open air night in Liege station until the first train at 4am, which i did and in the morning of the 26th I reached my bed and slept comfy zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzz