Ramada Plaza Liege City Center Liège

Jeudi 31 décembre 2009, dernier jour de l'année- je suis au chaud à la maison avec une vertèbre endommagée. Une chute à ski me pousse à retarder mon départ. L'orthopédiste me dira lundi quand il est raisonnable de partir. Nous verrons.

Once upon a time....
there was a little Jack-Russel puppy that was found in the south of Spain by some German animal welfare acivists... all by herself. So they took care of the little dog, fed her and found a new family for her where she could live. The only problem: the family lived in Husum in the very north of Germany.

So it happe...

So I got up and went to prep the bike partially: had breakfast, cleared the room (my roomate had already left for her exam - I never wished her good luck, oh well) Had some more breakfast. While I ate I scanned the map - there was a road leqding south down the bank of the Maas river, and I should be able to keep basically south all the way after...

Okay so its been a few days since the last update but each day has been written as I go so they should read as individual episodes. Also, apologies if there are loads of typos in the next few updates as this keyboard is all weird: AZERTY? What's that about?

I left the hostel and got the bike, riding it unloaded was weird. I headed back to the narrow shopping streets which were busy with shoppers and had a generally friendly feel to them. Returning to the tourist information I was directed to the station and a bikeshop that is open til midnight (this is because bike shops are often merged with manne...

Woke up to the sound of my room mate goin out to work, lazed another half hour and started to get stuff together. Hostels are great, but all your stuff is stored so far away from the bike and has to be rearranged for carrying/riding. The first sweat I break each day is generally before I have turned a pedal. (REST OF THIS PARAGRAPH IS TECHNICAL ...

Well, I'm back again and so much has happened since I last wrote - enough to turn my trip very nearly on its head...

I'm in Belgium now and back on an AZERTY keyboard, so this is difficult to type, but here goes: After leaving Sara's place in Aarhus, Denmark, last Wednesday, Claus and I spent the morning wandering through Aarhus in the ra...

This morning I was up early and on the road out of Paris by 7:00 for the three-and-a-half hour drive to the Belgian province of Luxembourg. On the way there I had to pass the city of Sedan, where the Prussian Army defeated and captured Emperor Napoleon III in 1870, marking the key German victory in the Franco-Prussian War. In May of 1940 it was ...

The second city we visited on our trip was another city in Belgium called Liege. This was a French-speaking city so this meant for once I was not one of the only people not able to communicate with anyone. It was funny seeing everyone else frustrated with not knowing how to speak French. Other than not being able to properly order food, the city...

In addition to catching up with friends, a little sightseeing and a whooooole lotta chilling, the main thrust of my holiday to Belgium over the New Year break was food - and lots of it! After being greeted by a good, strong coffee (something severely lacking in London!) and a Belgian waffle, my lovely hosts in the small town of Liege were al int...