New Updates

So here are a lot of updates at once. I posted them in chronological order but they show up on the blog with the most recent post on top so it is in reverse chronological order. Start with the Vienna post and read up from there. I forgot to transfer Charlie’s guest blog so I’ll get that online as soon as I can. I’m still working on the Amsterdam and Brussels posts. But I’ll give a quick update: yesterday we took a daytrip to the Flemish towns of Ghent and Brugge in Belgium. Both of them were important medieval cities and a lot of the old buildings and bridges are still standing. Both places were really beautiful, especially the rivers and gardens in Brugge. We ate hot fresh Belgian waffles for the first time in Ghent. Last night we saw the European Union buildings in Belgium. It was a lot of really new office buildings and the gigantic parliament building and there is still a lot of construction is going on. Some of the highlights of Amsterdam were the Van Gogh museum, the “Heineken Experience” (a museum in the old Heineken Brewery), Anne Frank’s house, and an Indonesian restaurant that we went too. The red light district was an interesting a sight, it was just blocks from our hostel too. We stopped in Rotterdam on our way to Brussels, which was a bunch of boring skyscrapers and shops.