Bonjour, Another little Brussels update. The day I flew back from France, July 21st, was also the National Day in Belgium. I had forgotten about it until the flight attendants made an announcement on the plane that they would be handing out chocolates in celebration. It was quite funny actually as they made the announcement in three languages. There were many cheers on the plane after the French announcement (I was one of them because I understood the French), then there more after the Flemish announcement and then the remaining holdouts cheered after the English announcement. I dropp [View Full Entry]

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Bonjour, I’ve been reading through the blog, and I’ve realized that I haven’t said much about my general life in Brussels recently so I will try to give you a scintillating version of things over the last couple of weeks. There has been quite the transition in the house I am living in. At the end of June, many people moved out including Claire, Malou, Christina, Natalia and Lucia. Monica stayed here though, so the transition was a little easier because we each knew someone. We had some cake. Well, let me rephrase that. We had one cake and one mess. [View Full Entry]

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The train stations smelled like waffles and chocolate - oh my!! I knew this was very bad and that we would enjoy every minute of the wonderful delicacies that Belgium had to offer. We were only going to be there for a day and a half so we had a lot of eating to do before moving on to Switzerland. The chocolate, the waffles and whipped cream, the french fries with mayonnaise - it was going to be a diet disaster. So much for eating healthy. We walked through Brussels and tried to visit all the major sights. So, this took [View Full Entry]

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I have been so busy unpacking and settling in that I have not had time to write or post an entry to our blog. Consequently this will be a long one….. so be prepared with a cup of coffee, glass of wine, box of chocolates or whatever tickles your fancy because here goes….. Yes it is really true…. after 7 months of living out of suitcases we are finally settled with all the moving boxes unpacked (and the offending suitcases put away) in Brussels, Belgium. HALLELUJAH! Many of you have asked for pictures of our apartment, so in a separate blog [View Full Entry]

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Pictures of our apartment in Belgium.... [View Full Entry]

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Pictures of our moving day into our apartment in Brussels (See Blog entry titled "We are finally settled" for a bit of a narrative about our experiences on moving day.... [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone, Yesterday I arrived in Belgium. I took a walk downtown. The streets here are crazy. They are arranged like tree branches: completely organic. And there are practically no street signs! What’s a girl to do? Luckily, the city isn’t very big and most of the tourist attractions are located together in one place. I just wandered around looking at all the fun shops until I recognized something. This morning I walked to the European Union. Apparently no one works here on a Sunday morning because it was completely deserted. I was the only one around for blocks. After [View Full Entry]

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We have been watching the news which tells us that there is storms and extreme heat throughout west Europe from Spain through France and moving into central Europe............. well we have missed it! We have had decent weather but not real hot not real cold but more cool than warm. I have had a cardigan (borrowed from Lisa) on most days. We arrived to a cool day in Brussels and found our accomodation on the quiet side of town but only 2 metro stops from town or 15 min walk. It is a beautiful new apartment again and I was extremely [View Full Entry]

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Et Bonjouuurr encore une fois! Après le voyage à Liège, j´allais en Brussels, la capitale, et c´était très, très belle. La cathédrale, le Palace de Justice, le Palace Royale, le parc ... Cette anciens édifices était vraiment une belle vue. Tu dois aller là aussi en particulier parce que Brussel est seulement 1.30 h de Aix-la-Chappelle! Bisouxx Claire [View Full Entry]

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The forecast for Sunday was for clear skies, but it wound up raining for much of the day, from about 9 AM to 3 PM. We started off going to a flea market about a twenty minute walk from the hotel, and tehn since it was raining, went to a pretty interesting museum about Belgian history. By the time we got out of the museum and had lunch, the rain was letting up and we spent the rest of the day haniging around the Grand Place. It was then back to the hotel to pack. The flight home on Monday, June [View Full Entry]

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