Ooh wow that was one hell of a holiday. In the good sense of the word lol don’t get me wrong! Tessa didn’t get to my house untill about 10.30 PM on Sunday night because her brother had to drive her, but before he could drop her off he had to pick their parents up from family, but he took the wrong turn or something and drove all the way up to Amsterdam, Ok not all the way but he was very close to Amsterdam lol. We live down south so yeah, wrong way . All that matters is really, is that she got her. We got up at around 7.30 AM the next morning [ complaining that we had to get up so early ] because or bus would leave at around 10 AM towards the Ardennes. I could bore you with the story how we waited there for the bus to leave etc etc, but basicly it’s all really normal stuff, you have to wait untill the bus is loaded and the bus driver / host is ready to leave.

Luckily we were on the right bus, there were 2 busses we could have. The one to Luxembourgh [ coz we THOUGHT we were going there ] and the one to the ardennes. We picked the Ardennes one lol and that was the right one coz it turned out the village we stayed in was like near the border of France, Luxembourgh and Belgium but inside Belgium, so we didn’t go to a hotel in Luxembourgh but to a hotel in Belgium… Details, details, details lol. Anyway, as we suspected the bus was mostly filled with older people. Some younger ones too but mostly older.
On the way up to the hotel we stopped at Brussels. We seen the Atomium, I’ve seen it before, heck I’ve been in there. And really to tell you the truth I think it’s an ugly thing, I was more interested in the old sale halls behind the Atomium, from the 1930′s. My luck, the bus just stops at the fountain near the Atomium and the halls are behind it on the other side, couldn’t see them from were we stopped and I couldn’t take pictures either from them. So I took a pic of the beautiful [cough] Atomium. We also got some time to shop in Brussels and get something to eat. Ask a police officer where “Manneke Pis” was [you look that one up] and found him. Hooray, it’s a tiny little statue not as big as it’s made out to be but whatever. We seen it that’s what counts [I've seen it before, long time ago].

We arrived at the Hotel De France in Florenville at around 6 PM, coz we made some more stops on the way up to let everyone stretch their legs and have something to eat or drink as well. The hotel is an old monistery. It’s not as pretty from the outside as I thought it would be but hey, we had a roof over our heads and the room was great, 2 beds, a tv, a telephone and our own bathroom. Too bad the food was absolutely horrific, we had to share vegetables [portions for 2 ppl] with 10 of us. And it wasn’t that nice, everyone from the bus was in the supermarket before dinner so we could acually buy something to eat to have after dinner just to not feel hungry. This happened every single day.
The owner of the hotel seems to be a bit of a bitch, she wouldn’t speak Dutch to us, only French, she charged us for clean towels [which you had to request for by the way they don't give it to you unless you asked ]. During dinner we would have to fill in coupons with our room numbers etc, to buy drinks, aweful lot of work and the service was EXTREMELY slow, I mean really slow. 2 Hours for soup, a tiny bit of whatever they served, and a spoonful of desert. And then the 3rd day there you had it, the lady from the hotel went up to our host, and asked if she had to call the police coz there were 4 knifes and a spoon missing [!!]. The host [ his name is Syb] told her “hell no, you should call fucking interpoll” [for you Americans, Interpoll is the European FBI]. Nothing happened with the knifes and spoon or anything, or at least we haven’t heard about it again. I can sit here and complain my arse off about the Hotel Owner and what she should have done but didn’t but it would take too long, I just want to mention, when it was time to pay for the drinks etc, she knew damn well how to speak Dutch.

I’m not going to describe every single day in detail, it would take to long and the blog would be huge [yes even bigger then usually!] but here is basicly what we did in all those days.
Monday — Atomium, Brussels and arrival at the Hotel
Tuesday — The Caves of Hann, visit to Dinant [city]
Wednesday — Route through some small towns, to see the view of the area [couldn't see much as it was misty], visit to Bouillon, and visit the Monistery in Orval
Tuesday — Visit to Luxembourgh City [Absolutely Beautiful!]
Friday — Leaving the Hotel, visiting Mechelen, Arriving Home [I loved my holiday but it's good to be home!]

Photo’s and a more detailed report of my holiday will be up tomorrow. I think I’m just going to lay in bed now, I missed my bed so much lol. Daily Doubles are updated [yes from all the days I've been gone] I’ve updated my QBee Quilt and the Forums are still up and running!
Plugs go to Kery [ 3 times ] Bex, Trac, Sarah and Hummy, ooh and to Kerry [yes with double R ] for tagging
Cya tomorrow my dearest dropsticks x

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