Scandic Antwerp Borgerhout

... where we got gooey, piping hot waffles from a van before continuing on to the gardens around the Palais Royale. There, my friends forced me to sit down for awhile, which isn’t a common thing on VanAcker vacations, but was a nice way to absorb the scenery. Our peaceful time was interrupted, however, by our shocking realization that stores might close early because it was Sunday…AND WE HAD NOT YET BOUGHT CHOCOLATE. All the time that we thought ...

... however MANY years ago. And cutoff sweat shirts hanging down over one shoulder. And a serious SIDE pony. I mean, I have been known to rock a low, nape of the neck, slight side pony - but no, we are talking what you might wear to "eighties night" at your fave bar, side pony. Worn without a hint of sarcasm. But guys, it gets worse. I really and truly have seen multiple people with ASYMMETRICAL HAIRCUTS!!!!! This I just cannot overlook ...

... and after putting down my credit card as an insurance deposit, I was nervous as hell driving this thing around the city. I believe it was released about 6 years ago, but it's essentially a motorized standup scooter that calculates your bodies position over 3,000 times each second in order to maintain stability so that you never fall off. You lean forward and you go forward, and if you lean to the side, the Segway revs up and steers to the side. I can't ...

... of Brussels most dynamic ethnic neighborhoods. Here one is greeted with quiet parks, neighborhood kids playing in streets, and a treasure chest of out-of-the-way cafes. The St. Gery neighborhood is also home to two murals highlighting several of Brussels' most famous and favorite comic characters. Serving as a bright backdrop to an otherwise drab concrete and brick schoolyard soccer pitch is a colorful chase scene from the Astrix ...

Pleqse excuse the a's being q's and other assorted nonsense, the keyboqrds here are ****ing crazy. I'm not even going to bother so I qpologise, I tried for the first pqrqgrqph but it just is not zorth it. Oh yes qnd the z's will be w's. If I remember then I might fix it... Anyway, so I qm in Brussels qnd it's rqining zhich is just qs zell becquse ...

Hi all! I know I haven't updated in a while, but things have been so crazy busy the last few weeks. Finally I have a chance to at least tell what's happening right now. At some point I plan to go back and write about other important stuff that's been going on lately, but for now I'll stick to the current events. So yes, I am on Fall Break right now. I am with James and his roommate Ben, as well as James' friend from back home, Chris. There were also a couple other ...

... spending so long lounging in Spain :) We had a nice dinner in the city's downtown, where all the restaurant owners stand at their doorways and fight to attract tourists (the one across the street from us must have spoken at least six languages...we caught him speaking German, Dutch, French, English, Spanish, and a bit of Japanese, among others).

... there were 3 H&M's. I didn't by anything because my budget was pretty much shot by then. Yesterday night we went got back to the ship we were notified that we in fact were not going to London any more. I was a bit disappointed as I had already made arrangements to have tea with the Queen, but I will have to catch her next time I am in town. No, really I was disappointed ...

... to being sober. The clothes were still wet so I stumbled back to the boat for some more singing and drinking. While trying to step onto the deck, I tripped and fell over the beer crate we had put there as a step to minimize the height difference between the dock and deck. I must've made a huge thud cuz a few people came running up from below-decks thinking some cable had snapped. Nope, it was just my ass hitting the steel deck. The ...

... a car and drive a few hours to Germany where we plan on doing something called "fairy tale road". I don't want to get into too many of the details now since we'll write more about it later but basically, it is the area where the Brothers Grim lived and found the inspiration for such stories as "Hansel and Gretel", "The Pied Piper", "Little Red Riding Hood", Sleeping Beauty", and more. We'll get into this later though. Anyways, this T-Pod intro is becoming a T-Pod in its own right so I ...