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<title>Hotel Giorgi</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/Hotel-Giorgi-v266489</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:27:30 PST</pubDate>
<description>Newly renovated hotel along McAuliffe Place which is in the heart of town.
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Bastogne-travel-guide-171684">Bastogne, Belgium></a>, Jun 19, 2008</p>
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Newly renovated hotel along McAuliffe Place which is in the heart of town.
-nice and clean great rooms
-big and modern comfortable bed
-large and new T&B 

You can park on the side street (hotel front).
Usually,nobody was manning at the hotel desk ,
Use the call box by the door else go to the restaurant (beside the hotel).
You can use your credit upfront for payment.

A short walk around is enjoyable.Different restaurants aroudnd the centerville square, WWII sites and tourists info.

Breakfast is not free (french breakfast, not bad for an acceptable amount
to enjoye a variety of food which is enough to stay full until the next destinations of road trip.

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<title>Vacation with friends!</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/36616/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:24:53 PST</pubDate>
<description>The next vacation, I am going to Belgium. Back to the place I went last year, I had a great time with my girl and I wanted to go again. But this ye...</description>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Beffe-travel-guide-171766">Beffe, Belgium></a>, Jul 23, 2008</p>
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<P>The next vacation, I am going to Belgium. Back to the place I went last year, I had a great time with my girl and I wanted to go again. But this year were going with some friends. Becease it's just more fun going with some more people. You can go were ever you like, and if someone want's to stay behind than that's is not a problem. We are going with 4 boys and 2 girls, can be fun ;)! But one of the girls is my girlfriend so that's no fun for the others!</P>
<P>This vacation is going to be a chill and sportive vacation! I want to do things but dont won't to do it every day!</P>
<P>From mountainbiking to laying in the sun, everything is okay! If it is a relaxe vacation!</P></p>
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<title>Last day</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/32354/First-day-of-orienteering-Arlon-1</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:36:54 PST</pubDate>
<description>Starttimes where early again so we didn&apos;t pack all our things before the competition but decided to go back afterwards. Or at least we would go bac...</description>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Arlon-travel-guide-171401">Arlon, Belgium></a>, May 12, 2008</p>
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<P>Starttimes where early again so we didn't pack all our things before the competition but decided to go back afterwards. Or at least we would go back by car and my father would leave earlier with the camper. My competition was the best out of three but still didn't go very well (a few weeks later I found out I had <FONT color=#000000>anaemia). </FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#000000>After the competition we did another geocache, this was a quite scary one inside an old&nbsp;watertower. We had to go all the way up, and a part of the stairs there wasn't any light. And then we had to go down inside the waterreservoir. After the cache we went to pack the tent and then went home. The way back went well except for a small traffic jam near Luik/Liege.</FONT> </P></p>
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<title>Second competition day</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/32354/First-day-of-orienteering-Arlon-1</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:20:23 PST</pubDate>
<description>Today the starttimes where in the morning so we had to get up early. I had to run the longest distance of the three days and did a little worse tha...</description>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Arlon-travel-guide-171401">Arlon, Belgium></a>, May 11, 2008</p>
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<P>Today the starttimes where in the morning so we had to get up early. I had to run the longest distance of the three days and did a little worse than the day before :( Because of the early starttimes we had time to do some other things in the afternoon so we went to do a geocache. Since my nephew fell asleep in the car i stayed with him and let the others do the cache. I sat down in the shade and read a book and enjoyed the view over the lake :) (and took some photo's ;))&nbsp;On our way to the next geocache my nephew woke up so now we could all go and search for the box in the forest. For dinner we went to Arlon we walked around to find a place to eat and after that we had some icecream :)</P>
<P>In the evening there was live&nbsp;music at the event center of the competitions (on the camping site). So we went there to enjoy the music, not the best music I ever heard but is was fun.&nbsp;I left before the music stopped to rest for the last competition, but I could still hear the music in my tent :)</P></p>
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<title>First day of orienteering</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/32354/First-day-of-orienteering-Arlon-1</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:05:58 PST</pubDate>
<description>Together with my mother, niece and nephew we left by car to Arlon in the morning of the 10th of may. My father had left earlier that morning with t...</description>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Arlon-travel-guide-171401">Arlon, Belgium></a>, May 10, 2008</p>
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<P>Together with my mother, niece and nephew we left by car to Arlon in the morning of the 10th of may. My father had left earlier that morning with the camper, but since the kids are 2 and 4 years old and start asking after five minutes if we are there,&nbsp;we left later by car since that is faster. The trip there went well and we had more then enough time before the competition would start when we arrived in Arlon so we could enjoy the sun :) I forgot to bring my sunscreen to the competition&nbsp;and I would regret that later that day.</P>
<P>My competition didnt go very well, I had some trouble reading the map and I wasn't the only one. Since the competition didn't start until 13.00u, we left directly after the competition because we still had to find our campingplace. We drove to the sportcentre of Arlon where the campingplaces where for the orienteering competition. After a bit of searching we found our place. And I could put up my tent while my parents made diner and the kids where trying to help me :/ After diner I did some games with the kids and then it was time to rest for the competition the next day.</P></p>
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<title>battle of the bulge</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/battle-of-the-bulge-v193321</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 05:18:41 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Bastogne-travel-guide-171684">Bastogne, Belgium></a>, May 11, 2008</p>
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<title>Bastenaken - Bastogne</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/25629/De-reis-kan-beginnen-IJmuiden-1</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 03:54:12 PST</pubDate>
<description>Bastogne stond nu op het menu. We volgden de bordjes “Historical Center” en kwamen zo bij het oorlogsmuseum. Hier hebben we een dia- en een fil...</description>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Bastogne-travel-guide-171684">Bastogne, Belgium></a>, Sep 21, 1987</p>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>Bastogne stond nu op het menu. We volgden de bordjes “Historical Center” en kwamen zo bij het oorlogsmuseum. Hier hebben we een dia- en een filmvoorstelling bezocht waar we zeer van onder de indruk waren, het betrof namelijk de slag om Bastogne dec ’44 • jan ’45 die vele slachtoffers heeft gekost. Eenmaal weer buiten beklommen en bekeken we ook nog het eigenlijke monument ter ere van de Gealliëerden.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>In het eigenlijke stadje bezochten we ook nog het kerkje wat weer volledig gerestaureerd was met financiële hulp van zowel de Amerikanen als de Duitsers.</FONT></SPAN></P></p>
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<title>Houffalize</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 03:54:12 PST</pubDate>
<description>Het volgende punt op het programma was Houffalize. Dit was een heel rustiek plaatsje. De auto werd “netjes” geparkeerd en daarna liepen we het ...</description>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Houffalize-travel-guide-175507">Houffalize, Belgium></a>, Sep 21, 1987</p>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>Het volgende punt op het programma was Houffalize. Dit was een heel rustiek plaatsje. De auto werd “netjes” geparkeerd en daarna liepen we het dorpje in. Eerst namen we een kopje koffie dat ons best lekker smaakte. We bezochten ook het kerkje hier en liepen nog wat verder rond voor we weer in de auto stapten.</FONT></SPAN></P></p>
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<title>Bouillon</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/25629/De-reis-kan-beginnen-IJmuiden-1</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 04:19:27 PST</pubDate>
<description>De volgende etappe bracht ons naar Bouillon (je weet wel van Godfried). Hier bezochten we voor de verandering weer eens een kasteel. Deze was echte...</description>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Bouillon-travel-guide-172331">Bouillon, Belgium></a>, Sep 24, 1987</p>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>De volgende etappe bracht ons naar Bouillon (je weet wel van Godfried). Hier bezochten we voor de verandering weer eens een kasteel. Deze was echter heel anders dan de vorige kastelen die we al bezocht hadden, dit was namelijk nog echt middeleeuws, met z’n donkere gangen en donkere ruimtes. Het was echt weer eens wat anders. We bezochten hier ook het algemene- en het Godfriedmuseum. Hier kwamen we erachter dat dit kasteel ook ooit eens privé-eigendom is geweest van wederom één van onze eigen Willems. We komen ze nogal eens tegen de laatste tijd, vind je niet? Natuurlijk werd ook het plaatselijke kerkje met een bezoek vereerd.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>Eenmaal weer op de begane grond besloten we eest eens even een kopje warme chocola te gaan nuttigen, en dit dachten we niets te laat, want we zaten nog niet rustig of de bui barstte weer eens in volle hevigheid los.</FONT></SPAN></P></p>
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<title>Florenville</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/25629/De-reis-kan-beginnen-IJmuiden-1</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 04:18:27 PST</pubDate>
<description>Weer werden we wakker met regen. Dit was toch niet helemaal wat we besteld hadden maar je doet er zo verrekte weinig aan. Na het ontbijt gingen we ...</description>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Florenville-travel-guide-173919">Florenville, Belgium></a>, Sep 24, 1987</p>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>Weer werden we wakker met regen. Dit was toch niet helemaal wat we besteld hadden maar je doet er zo verrekte weinig aan. Na het ontbijt gingen we echter toch maar weg, want je weet nooit of het nog een keertje wil opklaren.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>Het eerste plaatsje waar we naar toe wilden was Florenville. Hier kon je vanaf de achterkant van de kerk, die zelf ook best aardig uit de verf kwam, een heel eind kon kijken. Tenminste als het helder weer is. We konden nog best wel ver kijken, dus eigenlijk viel het nog wel mee.</FONT></SPAN></P></p>
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<title>Virton</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/25629/De-reis-kan-beginnen-IJmuiden-1</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 04:17:27 PST</pubDate>
<description>Virton was de volgende stad waar we naar toe reden, en hier wilden we ook vannacht blijven. Met de hulp van de plaatselijke VVV hadden we al gauw e...</description>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Virton-travel-guide-181391">Virton, Belgium></a>, Sep 23, 1987</p>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>Virton was de volgende stad waar we naar toe reden, en hier wilden we ook vannacht blijven. Met de hulp van de plaatselijke VVV hadden we al gauw een zeer goedkoop hotelletje gevonden. We brachten onze spullen op de kamer en na een beetje te zijn bijgekomen gingen we een eindje wandelen.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>Veel viel hier helaas niet te beleven, en na niet al te lange tijd zaten we op een terrasje van een “welverdiend” drankje te genieten. Opeens zagen we echter een hele donkere wolk aankomen, dus gingen we op een holletje terug naar het hotel. We hadden gelukkig nog het één en ander te lezen, dus we hoefden ons niet te vervelen.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>Rond een uur of zeven werd het tijd om eens een hapje te gaan eten. En in het restaurantje waar we binnengingen kregen we een prima karbonade. We bleven nogal lang zitten, maar dat mocht de pret niet drukken.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>In het hotel terug bleven we ook nog even een tijd zitten waarna we toch maar naar onze kamer gingen.</FONT></SPAN></P></p>
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<title>Aarlen - Arlon</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/25629/De-reis-kan-beginnen-IJmuiden-1</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 04:16:33 PST</pubDate>
<description>Deze stond er gelukkig nog en al gauw reden we richting Arlon (Aarlen op z’n nederlands) dat ondertussen weer in België ligt.
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>Deze stond er gelukkig nog en al gauw reden we richting Arlon (Aarlen op z’n nederlands) dat ondertussen weer in België ligt.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>Helaas konden we hier de romeinse restanten niet vinden, maar moesten we het doen met een vrij oude kerk die helaas niet open bleek te zijn.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=3>Na nog wat geld opgenomen te hebben gingen we er dus maar weer vandoor.</FONT></SPAN></P></p>
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<title>Durbuy, the smallest city on earth?</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 13:59:16 PST</pubDate>
<description>According to the signs, Durbuy should be the world&apos;s smallest city. Durbuy is a beautiful and small city, but to my knowledge it&apos;s not the smallest...</description>
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According to the signs, Durbuy should be the world's smallest city. Durbuy is a beautiful and small city, but to my knowledge it's not the smallest city in the world! The world's smallest city should be Bronkhorst near the river IJssel in the Dutch province of Gelderland. Bronkhorst, with it's 150 inhabitants,&nbsp;received it's municipal rights in 1482. However, Durbuy is a great place to spend some time, visiting all the shops in the narrow streets, lying down alongside the river Ourthe or viewing the castle. </p>
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<title>about a year before my trip</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:32:05 PST</pubDate>
<description>So anyways this is my blog entry about my trip to Italy and Greece. i hope to eventually update the picture that i have for the blog with one that ...</description>
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<P>So anyways this is my blog entry about my trip to Italy and Greece. i hope to eventually update the picture that i have for the blog with one that i take myself, but for now this will do.&nbsp; </P>
<P>Anyways&nbsp;as&nbsp;my profile says i am a poor college student but i eventually plan on doing a lot more trips when i get&nbsp; out of school and start making the big bucks.&nbsp; but i am managing to save up&nbsp;enough money to go on this trip next&nbsp;march which is&nbsp;put together with EF tours.&nbsp;The only thing i am worrying about is the stregnth of the american dollar to the euro. whish is pretty bad right now. its like 50 euro cent to the american dollar. hopefully&nbsp;when we get ourselves a new president we'll&nbsp;get our economy back up there.&nbsp; i hope.&nbsp; anyways&nbsp;thats&nbsp;all i really have to say right now. where working put the final touches on the itinerary now and we should have that done later this week. ttyl&nbsp;&nbsp; </P></p>
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<title>Vielsalm</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/29791/Vielsalm-Belgium-1</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:57:52 PST</pubDate>
<description>About Vielsalm:
It&apos;s a beautiful place with loads of nature. Good for all kinds of outdoors activities. Like mountainbiking, hiking, rafting, clim...</description>
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<P>About Vielsalm:</P>
<P>It's a beautiful place with loads of nature. Good for all kinds of outdoors activities. Like mountainbiking, hiking, rafting, climbing .. </P>
<P>We had loads of fun doing this, but other than that it can get a little boring in Vielsalm. As you can see in the pictures we managed to keep from going crazy (or maybe, we went crazy but liked it?) by keeping ourselves busy. </P>
<P>So vielsalm can be great if you don't mind being a little bored in the evenings after an active day outside. </P></p>
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