We travelled back for our night in Oostend after our relaxing beach getaway. Oostend is at least in the guidebook.... It definitely has more people, and more young people, which is neat. But we're only in town for the night, and we're q bit beached out, so we just walked around. And played a round of mini)golf. I managed to beat Neil (for the first time at anything golf related) 52-58 thanks to a waterhazard that he couldn't seem to get passed... There was a group of people ahead of us about our age that played like they'd never held a [View Full Entry]

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Well, yesterday's adventure has brought us to a coastal town in northern Belgium called Oostduinkerke. It has a beach, which is handy, since the weather has actually been sunny for two days. A modern day record for Belgium? Ok, maybe I should start at the beginning of this tale. In fact, it's probably the first genuine travel adventure we've had so far. I loved it, and thought it was a thrill. Neil was less comfortable. So we may avoid these kinds of adventures in the future, for better or worse. But how many people have slept in a shed? Ok, wait. [View Full Entry]

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Ok, so we left Brussels and went to Brugge, which was a bustling merchant town in medeival times and survived the bombings of the wars completely unscathed. Before I talk about our journey, I'd like to share some observations about life in Beligum: 1) The weather changes every fifteen minutes (or at least it seems to this time of year) - It cycles between cloudy, rainy, cloudy again, and sunny. But it's above 10 degrees, so it sure beats Edmonton.... 2) Flemmish is an odd language - I think it's a combination of French, German, Dutch, and English, and you can [View Full Entry]

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We took the Thalys high speed train to Brussels on Tuesday morning. Trains are fast! But they're so smooth, you don't really get sense of it, until you have some other reference. We were next to an expressway for part of it, and were proabbly going more than twice as fast as the cars and trucks, so that's something. I made a cool video, half by accdient, that, again, I can't post right now. Brussels is really cool. We were pretty mezmorised by the scene. The architecture is really cool and I took about a million... no, two million pictures. I'm [View Full Entry]

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Well, unfortunately I cannot upload any pictures right now because all of the hostels that we've been to do not let you access their USB ports. That's fine, I'll probably go to an internet cafe one of these days. Also, I'm writing these entries kind of retroactively for the last couple of days. So, pretty much, we left Edmonton at 8am and arrived in Paris at 9am... the next day... including some time zone action. We couldn't really sleep on the plane to Montreal because the seats wouldn't recline in our row since the emergency exit was right behind us. Dag. [View Full Entry]

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Well, it's three days before Neil and I leave for Paris, so I thought I'd try and kick off the travel blog and try and figure out how it works. So, pretty much, the weather here makes me want to leave. I took these pictures on Tuesday, and it was about -10C. It's definitely been unseasonably cold and snowy, but it made it easier to stay inside and study for my last round of final exams. It also makes me want to leave. Did I mention that? It hasn't really dawned on me that I've finished school, but the hangover won't [View Full Entry]

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