in lausanne for christmas julie lauren and i cooked a feast tonight, played christmas music, had a bottle of wine and then opened up presents!!!

Back to Home Base 2 i think they were secretly expecting us...after we told them we were never coming back. we had left them christmas presents last time... Rody, our dutch roomie, received a large can of hairspray (may be a little joke about his long hair), a shirt that we wrote "Bjorn Borg" on because he may have owned quite a few of these shirts, some candles because he actually would really use those, and some cookies with holes in the mi...

Back to Herne aka Home Base 1 we have alerted Home Base 1 that they are not the only Home Base in the running for best HB of the trip. we told them that we get fresh, homemade smoothies at Tilburg HB, but at the same time, we get french toast and/or pancakes in Herne HB. it's really a toss up. Christmas party tonight, and is it NICE to quit screwing around with backpacks. for the last 2 weeks, rach and i have been straight up backpacking. was i si...

Do i have to say much more than Spice Girls in Cologne, Germany (koln to the pros) probably not, but i'll say a few things - great job girls, although posh could not sing a lick, at least she looked good. but everything did in section 700 in the kolnarena. the concert was great, we had Litre beers which were pretty affordable, and we snuck out with the litres anyway. we needed them for the next few days at Home Base 1 (in Herne, Germany) where we went...

we cancelled luxembourg. every single time, without exception, when we told people we were going to Luxembourg, we got a stiff "WHY???" so we heard there was nothing to do, spent an extra day at home base Tilburg, and then headed to Brugge. Chris, Lauren, Rach (who has gotten extremely lazy when it comes to being Snopp Bloggy Blogg - our online alter ego...even comes with a great rap song!), and i head to Brugge for the night. we book a nice...