Day 4: Normandy
We made breakfast out of our market purchases yesterday: bread, cheese, tomatoes, strawberries, and some sausage that's really more like a jerky but easier to [...]
Day 3: Paris, Part 1
We left Cologne early, had a 6:44am train ride to Paris. Dan bought these tickets a long time ago, early enough to get great rates [...]
Day 2: Bonn
Dan slept much better last night, 7 hours; I slept about 6 hours and woke up naturally around 6am. So for now I'd say we're [...]
Day 1: Cologne
I slept for 6.5 hours, waking up about 5:30am local time. That's pretty normal for me in terms of length and time up; although here [...]
Departure: Tuesday – Wednesday
The actual traveling part of traveling is pretty boring. How exciting can 12 hours in a plane be? Well, I guess it could be pretty [...]
Pre-Departure
Many of you know that Dan works for Bayer. As in aspirin, but in the crop science division. If you look at pesticide products in [...]
Home on Saturday, 4/6/2013; Epilogue
We were pretty happy to be going home. Three weeks is a long time, it will be awhile before we do that again. Especially at [...]
Day 18: Brussels (Friday, April 5, 2013)
So I ended this trip the way I started it: exploring a foreign city by myself. Dan had to go back to Gent for an [...]
Day 17: Bruges to Gent to Brussels (Thursday, April 4, 2013)
The hotel owner in Bruges (Paul - we found his place on PurpleRoofs.com, too) honored our request for an early breakfast and we left at [...]
Day 16: Bruges, Part 2 (Wednesday, April 3, 2013)
We are definitely ready to come home, especially Dan who came out 6 days ahead of me for work. And, he just learned he will [...]
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