After climbing the Eiffel Tower and admiring a beautiful view of Paris, Adam and I packed the car and left Paris for Brussels. On our way, we stopped for lunch. Since we packed snacks, we just drove off the highway onto a dirt road with cornflowers looming next to us and had lunch in the middle of french nature. In Belgium, we got to our couchsurfer in Leuven, a little Town next to Brussels. He took us out for strong Belgium Beer and playing pool. We were a little shocked though, when we got to his place: a tiny room, no [View Full Entry]

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My apartment is about a 30 minute tram ride to the centre of Brussels and a ten minute tram ride to the school that I'm working at. It's technically in Brussels, but it's just on the outside border of the city. I live with two other interns: Doug and Amanda. The other two interns, Meg and Lauren, live upstairs. Our apartment is fully furnished and has a cleaning service that comes in twice a month. Other than not having hot water for the past two weeks (which was a tad inconvenient), everything has been really good at the apartment! My apartment [View Full Entry]

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We arrived to Brussels around 6:15pm on Friday night and Nadja from ISB came to the train station to pick us up and take us to my new apartment. We were able to look around the apartment, meet Amanda, one of my flatmates and her mother, I chose my room, and then we took a cab to our hotel, where I stayed with my mom and grandma for a few nights. Our hotel was literally right infront of the Grand Place, so we had an array of shops and restaurants to choose from for dinner. We ended up eating in a [View Full Entry]

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Brussels, Belgium Arriving in Brussels later than expected, and having to leave early the next day, we had to make the most of our time. The problem was, we did now know a lot about the city or what to do exactly. Our first stop was a place that reminds you of Belgium...Pizza Hut. We ordered a large pizza, but just to feel cultured, we ordered some fancy Belgian beers along with it (you can buy beer anywhere in Europe). We asked the waitress to point us to the city centre, which was about a 15-minute walk away from where we [View Full Entry]

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Wow. This weekend was crazy. We left our apartments at 630 am, and all ten of us loaded into two van taxis to take us to the airport. I don't think I really realized the full quantity of people I was going to be traveling with all weekend till we were waiting in line at the ticket counter to check in. And to think it was originally just to be Laura and I that would be heading off to Europe for the weekend. The plan was landing in Belgium, take an hour long bus ride into Brussels, then catch a bus [View Full Entry]

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We spend one night in Bruges. The truck is not really suited to these old cobbled narrow streets (or is it the other way round?) Arriving, we seemed to be approaching a near dead end before the hotel appeared in front of us on the waterside. Leaving, we had to back up a very narrow street as bikes and pedestrians took their lives in their hands on all sides. We hired bikes for an enjoyable couple of hours - this is a great way to see the city. As we are in Belgium now we have partaken on Leonidas Chocs, waffles [View Full Entry]

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My last night in Europe was spent in a swanky suite in the Raddison Blu Hotel in Brussels, which Dom and I got for a steal with Europe's cheap Sunday night accommodation rates that allows us to live like Kings - even if it was just for a short time! Unfortunately, we didn't enjoy much of it - we just slept, and slept, and slept. We had been at Spa for the past day and night, after all! We took the journey to Belgium by car on Saturday morning for the Spa 24 Hours, taking the underwater EuroTunnel (the underwater Interislander, [View Full Entry]

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A hard day of sightseeing today - as you will see by my final picture... [View Full Entry]

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Not a terribly eventful day. Got up at 8am, showered, hung out at the hostel for a while (as my clothes were still drying!) and packed everything up by 11am. I left my bags there, and went next door where I had some yummy crepes at an amazing price! 4 little crepes (one cheese to start, then banana, then nutella, then cherry) plus Coke-like drink (actually had a weird taste to it) for less than 3 euros! Quite amazing! I headed to the airport, where I waited around for an hour to check in. I was first in line and went [View Full Entry]

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Sorry Grandpa that the story is a bit short, but I am a bit young to be writing a novel like mummy does!! [View Full Entry]

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