Our time in France got off to a hectic start. Just as we were approaching Paris it started to snow and traffic became really congested. Instantly, it was recognizable that it was just going to be an insane place to drive in. The most hairy moment was probably as we were traveling around the roundabout in front of the Arc de Triomphe. It’s about 6 lanes wide, with no markings on the road, has about [...]

We spent a week in England, based out in Warwickshire for the most of it. It was a short drive to Stratford-Upon-Avon and about halfway between Oxford and Birmingham. My girlfriend and I went and stayed in London for a few nights and also spent two nights near the EuroTunnel in Folkstone the day we arrived and day we left. It was bitterly cold and snowed heaps while we were, but we ran pretty good [...]

Our time in Belgium got off to a shaky start. We arrived at the hotel in Brussels about 3:30pm, check-in was at 1pm and neither of our two rooms were ready. Ordinarily, that’d just be annoying, but my girlfriend wasn’t feeling well after the car trip. We asked them several times nicely if there was anything that they could do. It seems they only took that seriously when she spewed up in the middle of [...]