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Hello Everyone!! Early in the morning I headed to the train station to get the train to Brussels which is a 2 1/2 hour train ride, not bad! A little background when I got to Paris I wanted to get my Eurorail pass validated but wasn't really sure how to go about doing it. I talked to someone there and she told me just to fill it out so I did. Well she was wrong and only a ticket person can fill it out and in order to use your pass it has to be validated. So that really sucked but [View Full Entry]

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My final day in Brussels was good. My final thoughts on Brussels is that if I wouldn't have met Hayley then it would have been quite boring. After showering and eating some breakfast Hayley and I headed out to the beer museum. It was in my travel book and sounded like fun. We got there and paid to go into it but it was a bust!! It was just a room with the equipment to make beer and then a movie playing telling you about it. The only good thing was we got a beer with the entry fee. After this [View Full Entry]

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Well, this certainly was a culture shock and an experience Murda and I will never forget for sure. I wanted so badly to drive on the Auto-Bahn, but unfortunately i'm ashamed to admit that i could not drive a stick. Murda was no pro at it either, but she was better than me-so she got to be the designated driver the whole road trip. i felt so bad about this b/c i'm pretty sure this knocked at least a year off the end of her life. We were so stressed!! Reading road signs and figuring out roundabouts and highways when everything's [View Full Entry]

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So angelyn and I survived the 12 hour bus ride from Munich to Brussels. We got in at 6 oclock in the morning and since we couldnt check into the hostel until 2pm we basically wandered around the city. This city, like frankfurt, is very DC-like. Lots of government and corporation buildings. Not much for the eye of the tourist. Except, of course, the symbol of the city which is a two foot tall statue of a little naked boy peeing... In fact we got bored by 4 pm and went to go see a movie. It is interesting to hear [View Full Entry]

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We arrived, and yet again, didn't find an available hostel or hotel until our fourth try. It was near the Sheraton, Hilton, Crowne Plaza, etc....except ours was called Hotel Manhattan...name sounds nice, right? The hotel was no Hilton. But, it was the first time we had our own room since the beginning of the trip. We walked around the city. It was cool to see all the "important" buildings. We also did a bike tour, which rounded out our trip nicely. We saw the the EU Parliament and many other buildings tourists go to Brussels to see. We rode through some [View Full Entry]

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A fantastic few days in Brussels and Ghent. The mini-reunion kind of came out of nowhere - Ayca happened to be in Brussels at the same time as Saartjes bday. Added to this, Victoria was coming up from Madrid and Kai was coming from Germany, so I figured I'd tag along. Flew into Brussels on May 2nd and was met by Ayca. Apparently they had started the festivities the day before but nevertheless Ayca had enough energy to come out and meet me. We spent some days in Brussels just walking about mostly. Nights were spenting having a few. Belgium is [View Full Entry]

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Alright, so I've gotten some anxious emails from those eagerly anticipating my next installment (now I know how JK Rowling feels, kinda), so here it is... in two parts; I hope it doesn't disappoint! Sorry for the long wait, I've been crazy busy with school final projects and rehearsals for the theatre performance I will be in at the end of May! Yes, that's right, spring break in France is 2, count 'em TWO weeks long! First leg of the trip, Brussels Belgium to visit my friend Laetitia who was an exchange student to the US when I was a junior [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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28.4. Brysselistä Ittreen Espanjalaisunkarilaishollantilainen Llar (espanjalaispariskunnan Eva olikin unkarilainen ja veneessään oli vielä Hollannin lippu, kun olivat veneen juuri Hollannista ostaneet) ja tanskalainen Sif lähtivät ajoissa aamulla. Mekin perässä, maanantaina suljettuna oleva klubitalo ei oikein houkutellut jäämäänkään - onneksi oli tuotu pyykkimme pois sieltä illalla. Alkoi sataa. Ensimmäisellä sululla tuttavamme odottelivat vielä. Sulun tienoolla oli ilmeinen Brysselin mustien asukkaiden ja käytettyjen autojen myyjien kokoontumispaikka. Sulutimme Sifin kyljessä. Si [View Full Entry]

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