MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

today, we hitchhike to PARIS!

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brussels-france

i came in Lille yesterday around 5pm with the TGV train from Brussels after all the hassle in the South station of Brussles. Good thing my hosts were really really nice...i really have to go and get them something for all their kindness! i wouldnt have known what to do if they werent there to help...

the tram was late and full, the trains were also late...all becau

se of this damn snow. when i got to the station, good thing Zak was there when me and Salim arrived. we tried getting a ticket but took too long then went up the platform to try and buy there but the train was 15mins late so we went down again but when we finally got to the window, the man said he couldnt sell anymore tickets to the train i needed to take...so, up again to the platform and just got on the train with no ticket...i intended to pay but the man who was supposed to sell me the ticket did not find me! oh well, the hassl

e was the payment, i guess...in the train, i met a couple of people who had no ticket too!

when i arrived, corinne and maica met me in the station and then we walked back to their flat...

sinigang and adobo for dinner! then international get together with their friends...met some italians and talked italian!! haha...i was so psyched with the fact that i carried on conversations in italian!!!

it's snowing again but got to make most of my stay here! oh and my phone started working again..in belgium i guess, my network had no partners...

while planning what to do for xmas and new years

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brrrrgium

i spent my first day walking around and exploring... i got in around 1030 in Charleroi and took the shuttle to the center of brussels. from there i got on the line 5 of the metro to Thieffry where Jean Baptiste, my host, lives...

had a bad start to that day, ripped a shirt and had to sew it back right before i was set to leave, i didnt sleep so as not to oversleep for the 530am bus to the airport but as i boarded he bus, got too tired, slept and woke up when the bus already passed the airport...good thing the end of the line was not too far fro, the airport. realizing i was too early for my flight, i just slept again. boarded, took pics of the dolomites, landed and realized my phone does not instantly go on roaming...baaaaah...why is it that there has to be so much fuss for the networks here??? countries are all close together anyway...now, i have to struggle with having no phone

and not to mention how freaking cold it is here! it was snowing yesterday when i arrived at Jean Baptiste's flat and right now, i have to be in my jeans over my jogging pants over my longjohns over my shorts over my briefs because it is snowing again!!!

the pic up there is not one which i took as i couldn't be bothered to upload pics now...but it is where i was last night...the center had a blue christmas tree and the building to the lit up with moving lights, making it seem like it was dancing...

off to salim's place this afternoon...another couch to surf

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back in the air

i'm off to fly to brussels in a few hours...
yet another 'vietnam trip' for me...not knowing my exact plans are, not knowing much about the country...oh well...

i'm going to be in brussels until the 20th or earlier then heading down to france...or maybe going up to amsterdam...or east to germany...i really don't know and i like it that way...but i stay in that side of europe until the 7th of january, then im off to Rome! 12th im back to padova! back to packing...

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stitched pictures from ski trip!

a few shots i took and stitched up
first one isn't seamless at all...

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snowsnowsnow

just got back from an incredible weekend!
went to alto-adige, some place up north of italy, part of the dolomites...
went skiing finally and must say it's really hard but can be done...it's really fun but i guess the slopes i chose to try weren't suited for someone just starting... now, i am terribly sore and i have bruises on both cheeks of my ass! learning to stop took longer than i hoped so in order to stop when the ride was going too fast for me, i just decide to crash using my ass. the last pic is of me crashing and deciding to rest...

got some cool pictures as well but will have to just upload the ones from my phone as of the moment...the place was incredible, a 2 story house in the mountains complete with everything!
we were 17 erasmus people! germans, portuguese, italian, hungarian, czech, british, french, belgian...

wait for the pics!

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photo of the day

i was walking around the sausage and cheese market down via roma yesterday and saw this.
i did not want to try in the fears of walking around poking people with my stick or something...

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