Maggie here. We've had a bit of trouble getting on a computer lately, and the last time we did we forgot to update the blog, so sorry about the delay. We have since left Barcelona, spent a day and a half in Marseilles, France and today is our last day in Brussels. Also, Belgium is a bit behind the times technologically, their cell phone networks are not so good, so Heather's phone does not get emails here, only phone calls work.
So Marseilles was a bit sketch, but there were also some really nice areas. It was quite dirty in most of the city. But we did walk up a bunch of hills and got to the top near a really nice church which had a pretty gnarly view of the city. We mostly stopped there to break up the train ride from Barcelona to Belgium though. Barcelona to Marseilles took 7 hours, after a bit of a mix up with going to the wrong train station and missing our original train... but we figured out a different route to get there and it was fine. Then another 4 and a half hours or so to get to Belgium from Marseilles.
Brussels has been really awesome. We are couch surfing here, which means we found someone who lives here and was willing to let us stay at her place for free, on couchsurfing.org. So we're staying at Anna's apartment, and she's really cool. She's drawn maps for us and told us good places to go, helped us find an English bookstore, because Heather really needed another book to read. We both finished our books pretty early on which was kind of annoying because there is a lot of down time, especially on trains. I bought "Dracula" in Barcelona so I'm good for a while. And now she has a new book to read as well. So today Anna went out with us and showed us some cool places in the city. She is 32, from Poland originally but has been living in Brussels for a few years. She works for the EU. This is the only place we're couchsurfing.
Brussels is an interesting city, there's a French and a Dutch area, and the two groups don't really like each other. Today Anna took us to some Dutch areas which were cool to see.
So tomorrow we're headed to Bruges for two days, and then on to Amsterdam for two more, then from there to Ireland for two weeks. And after that Italy for a week and a half and then we're headed home. So I guess we're about half way done. Gnarly.
That's all for now.
Peace.
You ruh tards, I check this thing every couple of days and for 5, count 'em 5 whole days there was NOTHING! Anyway, sounds like you're having loads of fun there. Is it hard to figure out the train situation there, or are you two really ruh tards? Just kidding, I bet I would get confused too. Ohh! Has H had her breakfast sausage yet, and is M still sick? You guys better update this again soon or I will send you two a very strongly worded letter!!!
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