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Porto Portugal
We flew to Portugal from Brussels. We dropped our stuff at the airbnb then walked to a restaurant for lunch. It seemed that they didn't real...
Alanna
Strasbourg France
The four of us took a trip to Strasbourg for the Belgian long weekend and my aunt's birthday. My Uncle drove us and we stopped at a travel s...
Circus! 🎪
This show has been performing for years and this was the first year it was not performed as a street parade. My aunt...
Brussels Belguim
Antwerp Belgium
My aunt suggested going to visit the Red Star Line museum. In the morning we drove to Antwerp and walked to the museum. The Red Star Line wa...
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Hi mom.
We've been busy running errands around Belgium and with work I've been too tired to write. I'll try to write something this weekend...
Daron
Market in Willebroek
Every Wednesday morning is a market in Willebroek. It is biking distance from my aunt's house so today I biked to awthe market. There are lo...
Bruges Belgium
On Sunday 15 May my uncle drove us to Bruges. We parked outside the city center and walked into the center. On the way we saw the moat and o...
Praha, Česká republika
Just a couple days after returning to Brussels from Copenhagen we flew to Prague in the Czech Republic.
We left around 7 for the Brus...
Praha 🇨🇿
At this point, I feel somewhat confident navigating the airport, but I still wouldn't classify it as pleasant.
Our flight to Prague in the C...
Amsterdam Netherlands
We took a train to Antwerp and changed trains to go to Amsterdam. We arrived a few hours before we could check in so we got lunch at a cafe r...
Arriving in Belgium
Today we flew to Brussels, Belgium from Copenhagen, Denmark. My Uncle picked us up from the airport and we drove by the Atomium a...
Amsterdam 🇳🇱
On the road again 🎶 or more aptly, on the train again! 🚄
After a lovely week at Alanna's aunt and uncle's house near Brussels in suburban...
København
At this point, København (Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰) was beginning to look familiar. Denmark was our third Scandinavian country and it was clear why p...
København Danmark
Copenhagen, Denmark
This blog is full of pictures! I don't really talk about any general things from the trip so I would like to say here th...
Göteborg 🇸🇪
We arrived to no fanfare. A nondescript black bus dropped us off at the city's central station at a gate very similar to the one we departed from i...
Göteborg Sweden
The bus ride to Göteburg was nice. I was able to finish the Oslo knitted square and enjoy the costal views along the highway. The AirBnB w...
Oslo Norway
I don't have as much written for our time on Oslo because I wasn't keeping up with the blog and I didn't do as much comparing to our times in other...
Easter in Oslo
It's been two weeks since we left home, and last Sunday, we were traveling and didn't make it a priority to attend church. Personally, I'm not too...
Edinburgh Scotland
Our train ride to Edinburgh from Berwick-upon-Tweed was only 1 hour. After arriving we had a couple hours until our check in time but we h...
Oslo 🇳🇴
Image of the Royal Palace. There are two guards but if you really wanted to, I bet you could knock on the front door with a little help!
Aft...
Edinburgh 🏴
Edinburgh was a bit of a blur. Perhaps that is my fault for not writing sooner, but I got caught up in the day to day and didn't want to bust out t...
Berwick and Knitted Square
The train ride to Berwick-upon-Tweed was 4 hours and there were a couple of stops. I was surprised that we only stopped for about 2 minutes...
Berwick-upon-Tweed 🏴
After leaving London behind, we ventured by train out into the English countryside. It was nearly as idyllic as the stories and movies portray. Gra...
Goodbye London
After 3 nights in London, we're on our way to bigger (debatable) and better things!
Our final day in the city we spent wandering alone. I wo...
London Thoughts
I've been to London before but that was 14 years ago. It is interesting to me how different yet familiar it feels to me. Some of...
London Part 2
Today Daron and I did some solo adventuring. I slept in then went on the hunt for a post office and a yarn shop. I found a post office insi...
London Part 1
We took a red eye flight in an effort to reduce the jet lag. We left at 11 pm Dallas time and arrived at 3 pm London time...
Packing and trip goals
I want to go on this trip to experience European culture on a long term basis. I've been twice before and have seen a lot of the tourist...
First Days in London 🇬🇧
The weather was a cool and windy 50ºF when we stepped off the jet bridge at London Heathrow. The gate situation was complicated so...