Sheraton Airport Zaventem

Every two years, the weather man declared, there are strong gales in the south of England, the type that disrupt train services, housewives lose their laundry drying on the line, umbrellas get blown inside out - and even trees are blown down. This was the day that we chose to fly to England. It's OK, the gales will die down sometime in the afternoon, said the same weather man, but not after we've flown over to ...

We arrived in Brussels and got ourselves to our hotel and dumped our bags so we could start our day in the city and see the 5th biggest Cathedral in the world! Haha. And whatever else Brussels had to offer us, not to mention the food, chips, chocolate, waffles and beer!! We had a great day walking about and being amazed with how much Belgium loved us. Haha. Then after our day was done, we headed back to the hotel, had a well deserved ...

... get this... It was an italian restaurant with a far eastern owner, morcaan waiters, french menu and a flanders waiter!!!<br><br>After to be honest terrible food and a relatively nice evening it was back to the residence bar in the hotel for some drinks and a good catch up with the aunty!<br><br>All in all a fun start to the holiday!<br>excluding the confusion and general backwardness of brussels....

... are one way narrow winding roads just like in the small towns in France. I take on the challenge anyway! I drive a few blocks into the old city, making sure I can see a way to get out if necessary. I do not want to drive too far in and get lost, so I quickly find a parking space. At least the parking seems to be the same inside the old city as it was outside the old city. I look for a space close to a Ticket machine. I can see a big Church Tower with scaffolding around it from ...

Sofie born on the 15 of january after 9 months of hard work.... Our 6 months travel axperience had to continue in a way.... We chose to make a baby.... She will keep us company over the years in hopefully many countries. Giving birth is, as most people know, not such an easy job, but it was absolutely worth it. Sofie is a little princes, sleeping during the day and keeping us a wake at night. Enough... We just create this blog to edit some pictures for our travelpalls....

... it easily. The map the hostel gave us was really cool and had a little walking tour you could follow. So I took command, and lead us on a walking tour. We saw the stock exchange building, royal palace, royal gardens, a nice view of the city, and the fountain of the little boy peeing. This fountain was hillarious because people were crowded around it.We also stopped for chocolate covered waffles. The waffles here were different ...

... because he's written books, and that's partly true-he's pretty well known among the WWII research community-but he and his unit are renowned in (at least) this particular region of Belgium because of their noble efforts during the war. These thoughts brought a smile to my face while I retraced the same steps my grandfather made 62 years ago! The march itself was 24 km long and slightly hilly, but not nearly as steep as some ...

... that I wish all you readers could have joined me in. So today was a VERY productive day for me - especially considering the fact that it was a Saturday. Like I said yesterday, much of the group is gone taking weekend trips, but I decided to stay behind here in Leuven in an effort to save some money. This morning I woke up & headed down to the laundry mat. It is always good to have ...

... om onze connectie te halen. En van de uitzendingen van het 'Leven zoals het is : Heatrow' had ik al onthouden dat Heatrow een reuze grote luchthaven is. Dat het dus makkelijk 30 minuten wandelen kan zijn van de ene kant naar de andere gate. Aan de incheckbalie kunnen ze me 'geruststellen dat er een volgende vlucht gaat naar JFK 2 uur later. Dat we daardoor dan ook onze trein in New york zullen missen is niet hun zorg. We mogen het ...

... that much material. Friday the test rolled around and we were all hit hard. Jerry asked the most detailed questions and chose really random topics to focus on. By far the most difficult were the questions on the legislative procedures. The EU has six legislative procedures that we had to know for this test each with about ten different combinations of what could happen to the bill. Then Jerry's questions that would require you to keep everything straight for every procedure ...