Saturday.. We went to the Van Gogh museum earlier in the morning. The museum is a smaller museum but it contained a lot of information about Van Gogh. It was interesting to read about his life, I learned many things about he I did not previously know. I was a little disappointed that many of favorite pieces he has done were not there. Although I have a new favorite, Blossoming Almond Tree. It was fascinating to see the actual work done by someone so famous. The actual brush strokes of all his pieces were breathtaking!! We then proceeded to the Tulip [View Full Entry]

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Back to Belgium Still under the rain, I just love summers, don t you??? :) Doing my last things here (preparing the trip, writing mails...) and can t wait to leave D - 3 [View Full Entry]

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De ciudad en ciudad, de país en país, las vacaciones se venían transformando en una máquina de gastar energía. Por supuesto que, usando una famosa frase argentina, "sarna con gusto no pica" o "calavera no chilla". Pero un día de relax no viene para nada mal. Y dado que nos gustan mucho los juegos de agua, decidimos pasar un día en el Oceade de Bruselas. Se trata de un bonito parque acuático, situado en el Brupark, un área muy grande con distintas atracciones. Como es una zona donde la mayor parte del año hace frío, se t [View Full Entry]

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Happy late Fourth of July!! I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend and got to see beautiful fireworks (because I didn't :( ). I'm sure you are wondering what I did for the holiday because I know the title does not give it away! I went to England, London to be exact. I had to get up super early on Friday morning to get to the train station at 6:30 in the morning!! I didn't expect to go through border patrol or customs to get into the UK. We didn't have to for France and the UK is part of the [View Full Entry]

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Nuestro próximo destino fue Bruselas, la capital de Bélgica y el centro administrativo de la Unión Europea. Es considerada la capital de la Unión Europea, con lo que eso implica: mucha gente de distintos países conviviendo... y mucho tráfico! Veníamos de pueblitos pequeños de cuentos, cuando entramos en el caos vehicular de Bruselas. Por momentos pensamos en ir a buscar otra ciudad, pero con un poco de paciencia pudimos llegar a la estación de trenes y conseguir al [View Full Entry]

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Just the first entry, to test and begin the blog :) [View Full Entry]

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After our detour to Ghent, it was onto the main destination of the day: Brussels. The train journey was only half an hour, and again very easy. We amused ourselves on the journey by watching two middle-aged women who had apparently never been on a train before and just looked completely out of their depth-the concept of stations, luggage racks and all the general train stuff that you can think of were just completely alien to them! One of them looked like she'd had copious amounts of plastic surgery, so maybe all the botox had messed with her brain...I don't know, [View Full Entry]

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On Thursday (6/26), after class, two girls from my class (Karlie and Erin) and I left Brussels for Paris. I was so excited. These girls were the perfect company as well. Karlie is from LA and attends San Fransisco State University. She is hilarious and we are very similar; needless to say, she kept the trip entertaining. Erin is from Iowa and goes to Bradley. She is very quiet, but had quick witty responses to anything that Karlie or I said. My first international train ride wasn't too eventfull except the group that was sitting near us had at least three [View Full Entry]

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Well boys have settled in now, and I think their body clocks have now reached Belgium time as they are much more settled. We have done a few things this week, first being the Sports Carnavel on Sunday, it was pretty much a fair with all sorts of activities for kids, like bouncy castle, bike riding, climbing, trampolining etc etc, so Joe Joe had an awesome time there as you could imagine! We went shopping on Monday, and I spent too much money as I do when I go shopping so the last few days I have had to be good [View Full Entry]

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Hey all! The past couple weeks have been crazy! I've traveled around Europe a little bit. This past weekend I went to Belgium on Saturday... ate the most fabulous waffles and chocolate of my life. Walked around the gorgeous town, full of people and open markets. Then we ventured to Amsterdam on Sunday, the 22nd, and visited the Anne Frank museum which was a must. On Monday we went to the Van Gogh Museum and walked around the city. It is full of canals... more than Venice, who would've known. We had amazing weather and a long, long, long journey. Tuesday [View Full Entry]

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