Ibis Centre Opera Liège

... my stay here now, it will not be so easy for me to come to you - you may have to come to visit me if you want to see me whilst I am here. But just give me a call (my number was on Facebook last week), or drop me an email and we'll figure something out. For everyone else, please rest assured (family in particular) that I am OK now, and that it seems to have been a big scare that I am recovering from satisfactorily. Until next time, and hopefully with better news, I hope you are all well.<br>

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

... me three different mattresses, and none of them were foam. One was 85 and the other two were 99. The difference between the two was definitely noticable. Then the dude said that if I got the 99 one he would throw in a set of sheets for free (and they cost 10 euro). So, I took the deal. There was a 50 euro mattress, but it was very thin and for children. It would not have been comfortable for ten months. So, I got a mattress, sheets ...

... use my fingers to eat wings, but other than that, very delicious.<br><br>Tomorrow I have to:<br><br>1. get up and go get my apartment looked at by the rental agency to make sure of the apartment's condition so they can ensure that the room is returned in the same condition<br>2. go to the electric company and sign up so I can have power at my new place<br>3. go to the bank and finalize my damage ...

... 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>

... that now boasted a spectacular view of Liege and the surrounding valley. Now fully soaked, we found our way across the city to another tourist office for dry comfort and our snack lunch. After achieving a dryness that remained largely psychological, we pointed ourselves towards the aquarium since both the zoo and mountain top cathedral we had aspired to see were closed. Liege's institute of zoology housed a bizarrely amateur museum and aquarium, with exhibition ...

... shopping spent the day with louise and erin. sat night- went out to a random christmas party in some tent that had a folk band playing so that was really cool.. then went back to erins friends house and played games , celebrity heads and jounior pictionary.. in french, that was interesting but somehow we were able to understand eachother he he, and I think I even learnt some random french words, which may (or may not!) be of use in the future

... cafés de Liège (hum), Damien a finalement trouvé LE café qu'il nous fallait : le building, à deux pas chez nous. La soirée s'est super bien passée, on a beaucoup discuté, profité des bonnes tournées (avec modération bien sûr) et on s'est finalement retrouvés les seuls dans le café (le serveur a gardé le café ouvert juste pour ...

... edge of the town centre there were a number of different animal statues set around the bottom of an old concrete enclosure. After coming across a dog-like creature with a striped back, we jokingly pronounced it to be a Tasmanian Tiger, looking up at us in recognition of spotting two of his own. Despite the uncanny resemblance we dismissed it as something more European, like a fox or a wolf or something, until with ...