Hotel Portmans Hasselt

... I spent the afternoon wandering along the foreshore and the marina, admiring not only the ridiculously expensive yachts moored there, but also the Mercedes, BMWs, Bentleys, Jaguars and Aston Martins of the people who owned them. Each evening involved lively, entertaining discussion with Uncle Peter about the state of the world, which I always love. Saturday was a quiet day - we went out to lunch close by then had a quiet afternoon. And on Sunday I taught both Aunty Joyce and Uncle ...

... on.

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.
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.

I arrived at the music festival and went to set up my tent. Everybody around me was from Belgium and they were very curious about me. Next to me was a great group of young Belgians from the Flemish part of the country; Belgium is divided between Flemish people who live mainly in the north and speak dutch and Walloons who live mainly in the south and speak French. The Flemish and Walloons keep to themselves and do not really mix or communicate, it ...

... water van het hoogst bevaarbare meer ter wereld, het Titicacameer. - de sprookjesstad Cusco met de mysterieuze sfeer rond Machu Picchu. - archeoloogje spelen in de half opgegraven tempels van de Moche en Chimu cultuur in Trujillo, Peru. - de gezellige Kimbas bungalows en de feestjes met hooka's en multiple orgasms in Mancora, Peru. - de lange strandwandelingen in Montanita, Ecuador. - de muy amable Peruanen en de über amable Ecuadorianen. - het ...

... out to be an adventure. With the last train back to Bruges having already left, what option did I have but to keep partying till the thing ended? So I ended up getting a bit hammered to say the least and ended up tagging along with a group of five or so Belgian girls. The dancing etc went until 5am and we then adjourned to a local bar where we stayed until daylight. Then a couple of the girls took me back to the train station to catch ...

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< br>The slight morning drizzle did not hamper us from exploring the centre of Maastricht, and it felt nice to be amongst the local goings-on in the busy market square. But, although we were enjoying being in the midst of life on the other side of the world from where we were born and raised, Amber and I soon got a surprise reminder of home. In a park on ...

... natuurlijk een jaar lang niet zien. Ik vraag me nu al af hoe het gaat zijn als ik terugkom. Vooral naar studiekeuzes van vrienden, hoe mijn broers en zussen er gaan uitzien over een jaar, ...

Ik ben er dus volledig klaar voor. Koffer is gepakt (en ik hoop dat ik ook alles bij heb) en zit niet over de maximum limiet van het gewicht. Moet je ook kunnen: een jaar weggaan en maar 20 kg meenemen. Al zou ik het liefst met al mijn hebben en houden ...

... t care about colour, language or age. My last "thank-you" goes to Frank. Without him I would not have made this trip. I don't know how to thank him, words fail me. He organised everything and put our adventures on this travelpod in two languages so everybody could follow our trip. He drove 4800 km and even listened to my music and "whining". No doubt about it : he deserves the Nobel prize !

... van tot + 4°. Ondertussen heb ik gemakkelijkshalve mijn lange haren zo kort mogelijk laten knippen en mijn toiletzak (geen beauty-case) gevuld met allemaal mini uitgave van deodorant ed. Ik zit nu al te denken over de keuze van mijn kledij. Deze keer mag ik geen valies volproppen met 7 paar schoenen, rokjes, bloesjes en hemden maar moet ik doordacht mijn keuze maken.

... Stan the whole day to prepare his marathon 24h. Hopefully we managed to be back home in the evening but the come back to the city with the bike has been the most godamning... I needed to carry some chair and with a bike it was so ****. I managed to reach finally at last. I spent some time there and went to walk afterwards and called Gil with whom I spent the whole evening. Great great. We went to drink a grimbergen, talked and spent some ...