We began our day by getting up late enough to miss breakfast, and wandered down to Maccas to eat there and use their (hopefully) free internet. As it turns out, you have to pay to use the WiFi in the McDonalds here, and it is pretty expensive, so we ate some food - they have curly fries at these Maccas, yum - and headed back to the cafe we had gone to yesterday since we knew it had free WiFi. After sitting there for about 2 hours catching up with everyone back home (well thats what I was doing, Danny was downloading new games onto his iPhone and then playing them) we decided to head out and see Berlin. We headed to a mall where we knew there was a H&M store - recommended by Laura ... read more

Day 17 was our last day in Brussels, so we decided to get a really good taste of Belgium life: drinking beer and eating chocolate. Our first stop on the day of beer was a brewery in Brussels called the Cantilion Brewery. We went through the factory looking at the process and each step they take. I think Manford got a bit drunk from the fumes, because he was being quite silly, and even tried to hide in with the beer at one point, hoping we wouldn't notice and that he could just stay there. It was interesting learning about how they make the beer as they don't use the usual process - the beer is called a "living beer" as it ferments further in the bottle (after fermenting for 1, 2 or 3 years in ... read more

Day 14 - We began the day with a very poor breakfast - they brought it up to our room, which sounded like it would be great, but they failed to bring any milk for the tea.... All I wanted was some tea! We ended up going and having a second breakfast after tipping the milk-less tea and coffee down the smelly drain, and only eating one of the hard-looking croissants. From here we attempted to go to the Palais Rohan, but discovered upon arriving that it didn't open until 12. Luckily it had only been a two minute walk from our second-breakfast, so we headed to the Alsatian Museum instead. Fifteen minutes later, we arrived there to find that it also did not open until 12pm. So we continued on, heading to Petit France to ... read more

Day 12 was our last full day in Paris as we are heading out on a train to Strasbourg early tomorrow morning. We started the day a bit later as the Musee d'Orsay was our first stop of the day, and it doesn't open until 10. Unfortunately this meant that the breakfast area was almost completely full and we gave up trying to get in and get breakfast and just went to Maccas to see how it tastes in France. It was okay, but definitely not great! While they do have actual bacon instead of chicken bacon, it is very thin for some reason and incredibly salty. We then got on the Metro and made our way to the Musee d'Orsay to do Danny's favourite thing: join a huge line. I'm pretty sure the lines are ... read more

Day 10 - Paris We woke up bright and early (about 5 am) on day ten - we are still a bit confused with the time difference, so we made ourselves sleep until about 7 and then got up and got ready. We had breakfast at the motel, it is decent (juice, tea, coffee, toast, croissants, cereal) but nothing special. It will be interesting to see some of the things we get served for breakfast. Nothing can be weirder than the breakfast in Lumut, Mayalsia, where we had a hot buffet breakfast, most of which consisted of rice, curries and mixed veggies. Then we went back upstairs to get organised for the day and our first priority was locating Manford. We had a theory that he was probably in one of Danny's pockets, as this is ... read more