NH Maastricht

... decided that my appendix, gall bladder, stomach, intestines, liver, kidneys, lungs and heart were all OK, the doctors decided that I should stay the night for observation. I should say that my pain had continued to worsen throughout the day to the point where, whenever I had to lie flat for a CT or for them to poke at me, I would scream in pain (sorry mum!). I had also eaten nothing all day, and drunk almost nothing but the contrast liquid, and had no pain killers. So to say that ...

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

... 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>

... And Uula, it's always a great pleasure to get to hang out with you on the road and share all the good and bad together. Cheers! It proved to be a new way to travel for all of us and we had to addjust our pace to match each others. Uula was trying to rush to belgium since he just remembered night before we took off that his girlfriend was coming to see him to cologne in three days and he still decided to do the trip with us. For ...

... close to it! We are all sooooooo excited for a fun filled weekend. Our train leaves from Maastricht on Friday at 5:58 am....so it will be a very early morning for us but we will be able to spend a majority of the day in Paris. Our train returns back to Maastricht on Sunday afternoon (so we will have enough time that day to still do homework!) I promise to post all of my pictures as soon as I return for all ...

... most part people are very helpful and a lot of people speak English. It's kind of hard to read menus in Dutch, but we are catching on! Not only have do I get to see amazing places, but I have met a lot of wonderful people. There are 29 students in the MCTS program currently and we all have a lot of fun together. We spend most all of our time together, and we laugh A LOT. We are a friendly bunch so we seem to make friends wherever ...

... on Madeline shows - and we rode on the Carousel on River Seine. We caught a ferry from Calais in France to Dover (where the giant white chalk cliffs are) in England. We have made and flown model planes; painted and drawn pictures; rode our bikes everywhere; been on row boats and canal boats; and eaten lots of different foods. Our favourite cars have been French Citroens. We stayed in a town called Guerin in France, just like our surname and camped at a castle. The ...

... fries in the cafeteria but the ketchup tastes really funny here, oh well at least it was edible. :) Germans shootgun a pool table like we shootgun the passanger seat. tele means television not telephone and they don't chug a beer, they "race" them.

... small cursory road sign confirmed we had crossed into Belgium. It was an absolute pleasure to ride along the flat bike lanes attached to each and every road, a far cry from the stress and angst of riding alongside vehicle traffic in Australia, and we kept going for a good 25km or so to the town of Genk. <br><br>Genk itself was a fairly non-descript place, but when in a local supermarket we were each able to ...

Dit is de start van een nieuw leven! Een jaar lang weg uit de omgeving die voor mij gedurende 18 jaar zo bekend is geworden. Die bekende omgeving ga ik nu verlaten en ga nieuwe horizonten opzoeken. Spannend? Eng? Ik denk een beetje van beiden. Maar dat wil niet zeggen dat ik het niet meer zie zitten.<br><br>De laatste dagen zijn hier wel wat vreemd geweest, de dag komt ook zo dichtbij. Afscheidsfeestje is geweest voor vrienden en familie. Want ik ga ...