Time to say "au revoir" Sitting in the airport in Paris with a couple of plane journeys ahead of us... It's been another big day - this time in Disney - a foggy cool winters day. This also meant the bonus of very small queues and so a day running around trying to get it all seen and done. We've all had an amazing time - better than any of us expected even. And I think we'd be happy to keep going and explore more, but we are also missing home and are looking f...

Sad to leave... (By us all) With some sadness we left Brussels today heading to Paris (well Euro Disney... which is not quite the same as Paris). Another successful car journey to take back the rental car - thanked Lola our ever patient GPS, found our TGV train and then a bus to the hotel. We all have really enjoyed our time in Brussels mostly because of the people we've been lucky to have stayed in touch with. And so this is our last night away on our holida...

Lucky (by Warren) Today we braved the Belgian traffic (and especially the endless lines of long haul trucks) to visit the WWI battlefields at Ieper (or Ypres). We learned about the incredible sacrifice of so many in Flanders' fields with our tour focused particularly on the deeds of New Zealanders who fought and died at Messinnes, Paschendale, and Polygon Wood amongst other sites. Our guide's stories brought the battles to life and left us sobered by the tragedy...

Chocolate is my birth right (By Claudia mostly - with the help of everyone) Today we played tourist in Brussels. We went to the Grande Place where we ate our way through some authentic Belgian chocolate and battled our way through huge cream waffles. We then went to Waterloo - yes we sang the ABBA song over and over again! We had gone there to see friends who were celebrating two of their sons birthdays with a bowling party. We found out that none of us are par...

The familiar (and not so...) by Tracy We first came to live in Brussels 16 years ago and spent three years here. This is where both Claudia and Riley were born. There were a lot of emotions here as we adjusted to life as expats, and started our little family. The past two days we have been struck by how much we remember - the smells, the sounds, places we knew well, tastes, brands, traffic and the general flow of life. We've also realised that some things hav...