Guten tag again, I woke the other morning to the sound of luggage wheels passing over cobblestones. What as pleasant sound I thought as I slowly stirred from my slumber. It was interesting that there were so many people up so early and prepared to hop on the bus. Especially considering it was before 6am as my alarm had yet to go off. However, it seemed a little bright for 6am so I thought I'd check my watch just to be sure. 651am it said!?!?!? I haven't jumped up quite so quickly in a while. I threw on a suit, and [View Full Entry]

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Guten Tag, I vus in Germany for zee weekend and I saw many different things jah! Ok, enough with the atrocious German accent. Late on Thursday, we got on the bus, slogged through the traffic and arrived at Schloss Hachenberg 3 hours later than anticipated. It was pissing with rain when we arrived but dinner was waiting so I didn't mind too much. However, the beef (I think it was beef. It was dead whatever it was) was a trifle salty. And when I saw a trifle salty, it must have been marinating in the Dead Sea for a month prior [View Full Entry]

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Bonjour, The study tour has started, and here is the rundown for the past couple of days. A refresher for those of you who don't know or simply ignored them when I told them, the study tour is a trip to the 4 main EU cities (Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Frankfurt Main) with seminars, discussions, lectures and high level meetings with representatives, civil servants, advisors and politicians. Sunday: We had our first seminar on the study tour on the top floor of the Citadines Hotel in Brussels where we stay when we are in the city. The room was hotter than [View Full Entry]

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Bonjour or Hallo (depending on whether your Wallonian or Flemish), I finished packing this morning and then I got a ride out to the airport where I had 3 hours to kill before my flight took off. The Canucks games was on, but it was only playing on 3 small tvs in the Milestones that they have inside the airport. I didn't want to pay for a drink ($6 hello!?!?!?!?) so I sat on the regualr chairs outside the bar. I was just getting comfortable when "Peter Wright, please come to Gate 71". Oh no, what have I done now!?!?!? I [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, First Blog Post!!!! Get excited!!! I'm off on a Study Tour to EU cities, then an internship at the Canadian Mission to the European Union in Brussels, with many side trips thrown in on a regular basis. So I decided to get going on the blog before I left town. The going away party already happened and it was remarkably tame compared to previous ones. The partiers and I watched the travesty unfold (also known as the Canucks losing game 2) before seabussing it over to Gas Town to continue the night's festivities. We arrived at the Lamplighter as [View Full Entry]

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Sorry that they're late, but we finally got a computer working that could upload them and such. Hopefully, you'll enjoy them. They are from Munich up until the end of the trip. [View Full Entry]

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Hei, We checked out of the hostel in Tallinn early and walked to the port to catch our ferry for the short two hour crossing to Helsinki. The boat was essentially one large duty-free mall! We arrived around 930 am, and hiked to our hostel which was a good ways from the port. The hostel was a university dorm during the year, but a hostel in the summer so the rooms are all self-sufficient. We didn't have a lot that we wanted to see in Helsinki so we did things leisurely. We first went to the Temppeliaokio Kriko, which is a [View Full Entry]

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Hi, On the night of the 12th, we took the ferry from Stockholm to Tallinn. This ferry was bigger and nicer than our previous one. We were on deck 8 so well above the waterline and the car-deck this time. It was more like a floating hotel than a ferry and was quite enjoyable. There are many things to do on the boat including a show-lounge, karaoke and a club. The most entertaining part of the trip was watching two identical twin Polish brothers, with large mustaches of course, singing karaoke...twice!!! We arrived in Tallinn around 10am, and checked into the [View Full Entry]

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Hello, We arrived in Stockholm early in the morning after our night train from Oslo. We locked up our luggage in lockers and headed off to Gamla Stan via Riksdaghuset with Andy in tow. It was great wandering around Gamla Stan, Stcokholm's old town, with no tourists because it was too early for them. We bought tickets for Kunliga Slottet, the largest inhabited royal palace in the world with over 600 rooms, and waited for the 11 o'clock free guided tour. When we showed up, we found where the tourists had been hiding. The Royal Aprtments were great, lots of fancy [View Full Entry]

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Hej, We woke up very early to leave Mariestad so we could arrive in Oslo at a time that would maximize our time in the city. After several transfers, we arrived in Oslo around 1pm. We dumped our stuff in the hostel, which was decent enough, and then we headed out to see stuff. Typical for our trip, the Domkirke (cathedral) was completely underscaffolding so we were un-able to go inside. We headed down the walking street Karl Johans Gate, past the Parliament, National Theatre and the University to The Royal Palace. The Royal Palace is set in a nice park [View Full Entry]

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