Infotel Mons

... the city centre to see some more of Brussels and figure out Bruges the following day. We saw more of the city, and went to a chocolate museum with testers (YUM!), and watching a demonstration. We browsed around the MASSIVE Sunday markets, and even found this cool secondhand market that was great fun and interesting to look through. We also were determined to find this "Manneken Pis" statue which is a statue of a little boy taking ...

... I've gotten to mainland Europe, I've been having a rest day pretty much every other day. I actually think it makes it more difficult, because I get out of the mindset of riding. And so yet again, after not having ridden in three days, I was not really in the mindset... So I ended up being rescued by ...

Last day! Sunday was spent traveling, I had no time for sight seeing. I spent the time in between my arrival in London at 7 and my plane's departure playing air hockey with an Australian who was backpacking across the globe. I beat him handily, as he was too tired from walking through the chunnel and to the airport (he refused to take cabs, buses, or trains) to keep up with my deft ...

... nger - there) and went out drinking every night. And I just had a very good time. So now my free month is over and tomorrow morning it is back to work. I hope I can keep the good mood for a few weeks. And I definitely plan to start cooking Thai food regularly at home now and see how much I remember from my course.

... eachother and against ourselves. Everyone has a great time and everyone pushes themselves to be better. Im not so sure the girls are always as fond of me during practice because im constantly coming up with new drills for us to do, which means more work for them. Im always getting a sarcastic thanks jenn from someone. But its all in good fun. They think im crazy for how intense i try to get practice to be but i think they love ...

... why everyone is so thin. Here there is no obsession with diets. They dont even have a lot of `diet´ food. They dont eat huge meals and they seem to only eat when they are truly hungry. Eating when your bored is a rare occasion because you are always busy! The food they do eat, they work off by walking everywhere and doing physical household chores. Breakfast consists of a piece of bread with jam on it. Instead of eating desert at ...

... long leaving the hotel, and then I picked the tram that takes the longest amount of time to get to the train station. We managed to run in to the Eurostar area 10 minutes before our train was to leave. Luckily passport control didn't take that long, and security didn't see a reason to stop us. We ran up the ramp, threw our bags onto a rack, and sat down sweating and out of breath just in time for the doors to close.

... and I took a walk through the forest. An old man who passed us sitting on a park bench by the lake, enjoying the day's last rays of sun, said, "La vie est belle." He briefly stopped to smile and look at us before he walked on and we couldn't but agree. So that was my last day in Belgium for now and it ended with Crododile Dundee, part one, which is not a bad ending at all :o) "He doesn't like masochism." (Julie, on Hernan ...

... My last exam has been quite of a flop, but anyway I dont care... since I didnt even attend a single course due to schedule conflict and that the matter was boaafff. I had get a car for that evening of the 13th of June because usually I was suppose to go out with Carolyn for the night, which would have been the last times before her journey's departures. Finally out from my exam (the first one of course...) I got a cancelation message ...

... not too far away. The Lonely Planet says Belgian food is highly thought of in Europe, but I don't think it can compare with France. There are a lot of mussels with chips, but at more than double what we paid in Lille, our last stop in France. We had a strange experience in the Lille restaurant. We went there for a cheap lunch, which was not bad, and saw everyone eating big pails of mussels, so we went back at night to try it. As an entrée, I ordered onion soup ...