Once again I didn't eat breakfast this morning. I'm sure that surprises you just as much as it interests you. I'm sure you love reading this blog about my wonderful travels around Europe for the status updates about my breakfast habits. Yeah right. But my banging on about it has its reasons today; I didn't have breakfast because I was going on a chocolate tour of Brussels this morning, and who in their right mind would take up valuable stomach space with breakfas...

My first day in Brussels started very slowly indeed. This was a pattern I'd started to notice was developing ever since I started the solo part of my trip (I'm sure you have too if you've been reading this blog avidly. Actually I'm so far behind, you probably haven't). It's sort've odd, because before I left home this solo part was something I was really looking forward to; a chance to explore the world my way, absorbed in the beautiful places around me. I envisa...

Intent on bucking my recent trend and actually having breakfast today, I set my alarm for about 8am this morning, thinking that would leave me plenty of time to get up, get ready, packed, and to the station in plenty of time to consume some food before my train left bound for Amsterdam at 9:46am. In retrospect, we all know that was never on the cards. Retrospectively too, that sentence I just wrote is probably the longest first sentence of any of my entries so fa...