http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/TLexie/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from TLexie en-us Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:35:37 +0000 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:35:37 +0000 Today we took a day trip to Luxembourg City...the train ride was about three hours and was to me almost the best part of the trip...the country is beautiful and gets progressively so the closer to the border and closer to the mountains you get...we spent a little time in the city exploring and had a great time...we are now on our last day in Bruxelles...most of the day is preparation for the res http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Luxembourg/Luxembourg-City/blog-415350.html Right now we are sort of stationed in Brussels...All the traveling and walking for the first few days was very tiresome so we are just kind of taking it easy here...The last two days we did some typical sightseeing like the Grote Markt and the cathedral...everything is beautiful here...it is very hilly and hot though so it is good we have some time....we are staying a little outside of town whic http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-414390.html We are in Bruges. It is really beautiful like they say it is but it is absolutely packed with tourists. So we are trying to take it in away from the main areas. Today we rented bicycles which has been really great. We have seen so many backstreets and canals. We will probably go to the store later and get sandwiches and take them to a park near the windmills and just hang out. So far getting aro http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-413327.html Today we left Rotterdam and took the train to Antwerp for a short day trip. It's a great place to just walk around and just take it in. We walked from the central station to the waterfront. The archetecture is beautiful and the shopping abundant unfortunately we weren't really there for that. We came across a few markets including a little flea market in a square that had a lot of interesting http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Belgium/Antwerp-Province/Antwerp/blog-413321.html Hey everyone Thanks for all the kind wishes...We are in the Netherlands and enjoying every second...Currently we are in Rotterdam enjoying an evening of relaxation...Our first two days in Amsterdam and first day here tired us out...There's so much we've done already that I don't know where to start...Good food great beer awesome views from our hotel and good company from our friends and fellow http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-412595.html PreTripOkay so we haven't left yet. I have one week of school and work left so the fact that we are leaving soon hasn't even registered yet. To say we aren't 100 ready yet would be an overstatement but who knows Maybe that will work out in our benefit. I really wanted to write a pretrip blog to make sure I'm doing this right and make everyone aware of it. I will try to update at least a few http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Illinois/Chicago/blog-409243.html