The trouble, it turned out, was that Belgium was on strike. When I talked to the DeutcheBahn employee, I knew this. What I failed to realize, because she didn't use the exact words for "go through" I know, was the reason I couldn't get a train to Paris had nothing to do with France ( Read more... )

Language is funny, because people are funny. It's odd how you can go 22km and suddenly no one even acknowledges your language exists. It may help that that 22km is all water. Take however one of the most famous churches I know of "Notre Dame" which is of a fame similar to the "Empire state building" in my mind. So it would strike me as a bit ( Read more... )