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The Europe Tour Begins

A travel blog entry by debw

Today we began our tour, taking the bus to Dover and then across the English Channel to France, followed by a drive to Brussels. Yesterday was a fantastic full day in London. Tuesday night I met up with my friends, Lauren and Erin, and Etin's brother Joe and his friend Sachin. we then walked to Covent Garden, a fun area with street performers and …

Belgium: Planes Fries Beer Chocolate

A travel blog entry by alex_ioana2010

Early on Saturday morning we left our apartment and walked to the station, and caught a train to Brussels which takes 2.5 hours. We arrived at 9:40, and started off by leaving our luggage at the station so we wouldn't have to lug it around all day. Our first sight on our plan was the museum of armaments and military history, which was a short metro ride away. This museum was really cool – even Ioana found it interesting (and it was free!). They had ...

The Mussels from Brussels

A travel blog entry by camanita

... our morning coffee (who usually comes 30mins before your stop) didn’t knock until 7am (when we were expecting him at 5:45am). Alas, we got all our bags and waited in the hallway as time ticked by. After slowing down at heaps of Belgian stations, and watching the minutes tick by after 7:30am, we were convinced we weren’t making our next train and we would have to deal with a ticket change and a few more hours at Cologne station again. At ...

Guaranteed to add 10 pounds to you.

A travel blog entry by ragazzo1977

... sun was shining and the weather was suprisingly warm for early May. For lunch, we stopped at La Rose for our first real Belgian beers and food. Our waitress was friendly and polite. She asked how the food was and if we needed anything else. Okay, someone's ******* with me. There's no way we're in Europe. Anyway, the beer was cold, refreshing and awesome. We both ordered the blonde beer. For lunch, we both tried the chicken breast ...

Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory

A travel blog entry by emily.

Chocolate tour: Cologne, Aachen, Brussels, and Brugge

Wednesday my business of chocolate class left for Cologne, Germany for our chocolate study tour. I had just gotten back from Munich the previous day and was pretty exhausted. I had to get up at 6 and then got to Cologne around 1. Our first stop was to the Lindt chocolate museum. It was pretty interesting. We learned a lot of what our tour guide was telling us which is good since the tour guide had the ...