Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Summer 2011, what a program !!!! PART I

I've been wondering when I would have the time to start writing again...

I've really had a lot to do to this summer and honestly just forgot to write about it.... As the weather here in Belgium has been the worst since I can remember, I tryed to leave it as much as possible from the moment I had a day off....

11 july my friend Carina and me left for a night to the crowded city of London... We stayed in Hotel Thistle Bloomsbury Park. This 3* hotel close to Russel Square is perfectly situated. A stroll away from Covent garden, Kings Cross station and metrostations. What we loved the most in the hotel was the breakfast buffet !!! The room was big enough with a big kingsize bed like in the US. Nice and soft. A good adress to stay in Britains capital.
As we were only one day in London we tryied to visit the most famous places in town. We walked from the hotel throughCovent Garden, Picadilly, Trafalgar Square, Parliament street, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey and arrived just in time for the changing of guards at Buckingham Palace. From there by foot to Harrods for shopping (are you crazy, I don't have that kind of money!!), ok for looking..... The metro took us further to the Tower Bridge and Camden town all in one day. And we still had time to go shopping in Oxford street as the sales where on ! When are feet began to soar it was time to go back to Kings Cross and catch our Eurostar back to Lille.... What a day !


My next stop this summer was Amsterdam, again ! This time it was a quick stop of one night because I had tickets for a concert in the Amsterdam Arena on the 18th of july.
I stayed in a little hotel, 5 minutes from the Central Stations, called The Old Nickel. I chose it because of it's situation and, honestly, because of it's price. As I went alone, the prices for a single room where very high, so this hotel was at the honest price of 50€ with breakfast. The rooms are small but clean and above the owners bar. Although the staff wasn't that friendly and the breakfast was not to write home about, for one night close to the centre and station I didn't need more then that.
Take That's concert was huge, spectacular and so worth the money I spend on it ! The guys from Manchester all reunited was a night to remember !


One week later it was on the nice beach of Zeebruges that we had an appointment with Bon Jovi !!
From "Livin on a prayer" through "It's my life" and "Bed of roses", Jon Bon Jovi made the show ! The nicest summer sunset if the year was our gift to Bon Jovi's outstanding performance !!

The weekend of 30th july we had company. Remember Amandine and David from our trip to Sri Lanka ? Well, they came to visit us for 3 days, and we welcomed them with open arms into our appartment.
We took them to some of the nicest places on the Belgian coast area such as Bruges, Ostend and De Haan and had a lovely time doing that too !!

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