london-brussels

I am just finishing up packing for my next two weeks of travel (amsterdam=madrid-athens) so i thought i would update my blog quick. London and Brussels were both amazing in their own ways. I traveled this past week with my economics class, we went to different business meetings and such. London was great, i love being in a big city, you can really feel something different in london. Being able to see the big tourist attractions (big ben, buckingham palace, etc.) was fun and being to just spend time chilling in london was a great experience. We got to go to the european bank of reconstruction and development, similar to the world bank but they invest with a hope of a return unlike the world bank who more gives out money, and had a presentation in the board of directors boardroom, it was a great. We went on a walking tour of london's east end and also meet with london transport (they are in charge of the london underground, buses, and other public transportation in london. I also got to meet up with kerry york for a little bit and that was fun, she is studying in london currently.

After london we took a train to brussels, it lasted about 2 hours but seemed like 5 minutes to me as i feel asleep before i could turn my ipod on ( i slept holding my ipod the whole ride but not listening to it). My econ classmates liked hanging out at night and we had to get up early for business meetings and everything else we had planned for the day so i got very little sleep during the week. After arriving in brussels we had an amazing 3 course meal, which was consistent with the majority of the meals that DIS paid for. In brussels we stayed at this chinese hotel which was weird since everything was in french and chinese and some english. I really enjoyed walking around brussels, it is a gorgeous city and had some many great buildings. The grand place (a square in the middle of the city) was amazing and one of the coolest places i have been. There were chocolate stores everywhere and on the last day we visited chocolate planet for a presentation about making chocolate. For dinner one night i had belgium waffles with strawberries, bannanas, whipped cream, and chocolate sauce and it was one of the best things i have ever tasted. We also got to visit EU Parliament in brussels which was an amazing visit. Our tour was given by a former member of parliament who still works at parliament and we got a full behind the scenes look at the EU parliament. Our tour guide was a little crazy but a great guy and very funny. Friday night we headed back to copenhagen with a 13 hour bus ride, we got into copenhagen around 9 am and i headed home to sleep most of the day away.

I must finish packing now before it gets too late here.

For all of my pictures from london brussels click the follwing:
London 1
London 2
Brussels



here is a sneak pic of the pics (if you don't have time or the link doesn't work):