Metropole Liège

... and the evening, and it was great to see everyone again, but when I woke on Tuesday morning, I was in severe pain all over the right side of my belly - so much so that I nearly fainted when I first got up. My host-sister Goele took me to the doctor, and was kind enough to stay with me the whole day after the GP sent me to the hospital, through a myriad of tests. We started with an X-ray and ultrasound as they tried to see my appendix. Once those showed nothing, we moved on to a CT ...

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 ...

... 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>

Once in Elsloo, we stopped to find postcards (having completely missed the observations again), only to find that the only card shop was closed that afternoon.<br><br>Up the road a bit, and Kieran was dropping a card into the door of a Landy enthusiast they had met on the recce. The guy turned up at that moment, and so we were invited in for a refreshing cold drink. The Landyprikkers overtook us at that point, and went on their way. We then ...

... beautiful, and you can see lots of pictures of it on my gallery:<br><br>www.juliesours.com/gall ery<br><br>We saw lots of old churches from the 1500s and a castle/fort, which is in the pictures.<br><br>Also yesterday I signed the lease for my new apartment! Nil came with me and basically did all of the talking, and I am very grateful for that, because it would have been difficult to do by myself, signing ...

... Zeebrugge ( I think that's how you spell it!) and had a fun but fairly uneventful ferry crossing, that is until we got to the other side when we found out that our french teacher had forgotten to book the coach to take us from the port to the train station. Fortunately some lovely football fans agreed to share their coach with some of our group, the rest of us had to pile into a taxi with a dutch speaking driver who didn't speak wonderful english and wasn't too ...

... de Saint-Lambert, évèque de Maastricht. Après 1 h 45 de train depuis Louvain-la-Neuve, je descends à la gare du Palais à Liège. À côté du palais des Princes-Évêques, se trouve la Place Saint-Lambert. Une ancienne cathédrale occuppait jadis le coeur de la Place, mais elle fut incendiée en 1789 lors de la révolution française. Un dessin au sol et des piliers modernes en tracent aujourd'hui le contour. Nous continuons ...

... 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.