Captains log 09/07/13 ok so things don't always go as planned, nor do they general just work out. So we lay here on the ground at 12am inside the train station, everything's closed. We're stranded. We don't want to get franks out, everything's really expensive. It's going to cost 50 euros to lock up our cases, were screwed. We just have to sit and wait 9 hours in the dark cold train station. I get Bella to sleep as I read my book trying not to let the glares and ...

Being standard somewhere is all part of the experience apparently, but I'm getting ahead of myself! Sad to leave our little Queen Anne hotel:( been so good to us, and felt like an actual holiday, but it's back to the road for us! Yesterday we organized a pretty descent transfer to florence, in order to meet up with Lara, and apparently the only then we had to do was reserve out German seats once we got to German. So said out north station Belgium train man. So we...