Birthday Moon

I was lucky enough to have a beautiful day spent with Tim and my brother for my birthday during our trip.  We went to Ghent, did our favorite things, a canal cruise and climbed up many steps in a Belfort and ended up on the coast of the North Sea for beers on a pier and a yummy sea food dinner.  I can’t believe I am 33!

Greenwich

Yeah, we’re travel dorks. We met Rick Steves in a chess bar in Brussels called Greenwich. He wasn’t disguised in all khaki, or wearing his glasses so AJ and I were slightly thrown off, but Tim called it right away. He was really nice, and even though he was on the end of a 6 week trip to update his guide books, he stopped to chat with us.

I know Cynthia will be sooooo jealous.

::NOTE::

Be sure to check out YouTube for a few videos of our trip, especially the musical show that accompanied the Flower Carpet in Brussels. I will try to upload the videos throughout the week. Flickr only supports 90 seconds of video, so YouTube is it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/sarahstim

–tim

Low Countries

Returned last night from our two week trip to the Low Countries.  Together with Andrew, we hit 10 cities in three countries: Brussels, Luxembourg City, Brugges, Ghent, Oostend, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Den Haag and Delft.  We met up with Brad and Sarah in Amsterdam too.  We had a grand time, ate sea food, frites with mayo, tostis with kaas, omlettes, pancakes, waffles, croissants and drank lots of sweet sweet Belgian beer.

We are working on uploading photos, so check the flickr throughout the week.  Wishing the trip could be longer, but happy to be back!  Loki missed us, but was well taken care of.

And, welcome to the world Malcolm!

Strange Neighborhood

This?  Is why I always carry my camera. You never know what you’ll see.  I am not expecting to catch the big things on camera, but detail the mundane.  The ignored, silly, strange, puzzling and funny.

I’ll try to do more in the future!