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By Chet and Kat
July 7th 2007

Just 400 Kilometers Out of the Way

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Netherlands, Belgium Leg Cheston & Katherine Hervey Again, we're not really in Chimay, Belgium (we actually got back to Koblenz about 10 pm) but we went there today and it was unbelievable. We woke up this morning in Nazareth, which is to the Northwest of Brussels but east of Brugge which is almost on the coast. We drove into Brussel and 15 minutes after entering the edge of the city we renamed it, "The City with the Most Confusing Road System and the Poorest Road Signs in Europe." Once we had gone through 5 tunnels (one [View Full Entry]

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