From Amsterdam we caught a train through the Netherlands and Belgium to Brussels where we would spend the night before heading back to London for work. Johan and Bea were heading to Paris for three nights, and we were to meet up with Luke and Carmel on their way from Switzerland. As soon as we checked in Luke and Carmel came to meet us, with some valuable possessions they had picked up for us in Lucern. The last time Liani and I were in Switzerland we found these beautiful rings which we bought one another. Only problem was we had to [View Full Entry]

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Once the program was over, before I could head back to Seattle, I had one day to kill. A classmate from mine was going to visit family outside of Brussels, invited me to stay with him, and thus solved the problem of what to do with the extra day. We shared a taxi with Aphrodite and Niccoleta (both from the Masters program in Portsmouth) and then took the train into North Brussels from the airport. After dropping off our bags, we headed into town and I was able to get the idea of the flavour for the capital of Europe. It [View Full Entry]

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Everybody needs somebody else to love. Shout it out. Shout it out above from heaven. Shout it out, shout it out above from heaven. Needs somebody to love... needs somebody to love... needs somebody to love. Today, at PARTS, a dance outside the box. Beginning in a trash can, moving through piano tunes of crazy love played by Julien, dancing with a Coca-Cola can and the Bush administration's darling Lay's potato chips, and my own multinational clothing... "made in Bangladesh, Egypt, Mexico, Turkey, Bangladesh,...Bangladesh..." into a naked, multicellular What If: [View Full Entry]

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We hopped on the train to Brussels today from Amsterdam. We've become good friends with the people in our hostel and it was sad to leave, but five nights in Amsterdam was perfect. We hardly missed a thing. A couple days ago we took a canal tour around the city with our friend Laticia from Arizona. We then walked around the city some more and checked out the sex museum before heading back to get ready for the night. I had the best time that night wandering around the city with Leanne, hanging out at the hostel with RJ, learning British [View Full Entry]

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Hey all... finally gettin this blog thing up to date.. so where did i leave off?? sarah and i left last thursday for brussels after deciding greece and dublin were to expensive to get to so we hopped on an hour train out of paris north to brussels. I think so far (keep in mind that ive only been to 4 cities) brussels has been my favorite... Sarah and i are convinced that this rain has been following us whereever we go, but brussels was definitly an awsome city in any weather, plus we got some good sun on thurs afternoon [View Full Entry]

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I've been back from my travels a month now, and Brussels is its usual rainy self. But en route for Brussels I stopped off for a drink to celebrate April and Andrew's engagement in London (notice the sparkling ring!). Congratulations! I spent my birthday with my sis, Clare, and my adorable nieces. We did loads of great things in Brussels like go to the Children's Museum, as well as Oceade. But the most enjoyable part was the day we spent making things out of fimo, as well as the 'pop concert' Clare and I had to sit through... Anyway, I'm about [View Full Entry]

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It's all very sad:( I'm back at work now, feeling most sorry for myself! For some mad reason I came in only 2 hours after landing, and 24 hours of travel is now starting to catch up. But that's boring, time to update on the last few days of my trip... So my last blog was in Playa, which I was (very guiltily!) enjoying as a beachy relax at the end of some relentess travelling. I went to Tulum with Becky, Ines and Julianna. The plan had been to visit the ruins and then so some relaxing on the beach. As [View Full Entry]

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No trip to Belgium is complete without a trip to Brussels, so I went with Daniel and Dr. King, both from the U of A. We took a train to Brussels Central, got off, and started walking around. We walked past the royal palace, down to the Grote Markt (Grand Place), saw Manneken Pis, and had a late lunch of what else...mussels. [View Full Entry]

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Well knowing Luke and I of course a weekend away to a European country is going to include exciting times and of course small problems too. To put it another way, we almost didn't even make it there!!! Now I don't wanna point the finger of blame at anyone in particular (largely because it was my fault!). To start off with, we got up a little too late (ahem...Luke) and were rushing around to get ready in only half an hour before we had to walk to the train station. In the kafuffle and rush, it was only when we were [View Full Entry]

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We arrived to brussels nice cosmopolitan city where the base of the EU is modern, nice transport but still don't know the touristic spots, nice cathedral, modern business zone, some very nice gardens. I'm positive that I must be unfair with this city we were very tired and not so willing to made more research on what we can see on it. But why do we that stop, to take the brand new Eurotunnel and go to the UK (almost broken). [View Full Entry]

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