maandag, augustus 25, 2008

My Vacation!

Hi everyone..

A little review (and pictures) of my holidays in Westerlo and Ireland..
Here's Westerlo for ya! :)

~Westerlo... (16th July - 20th July)
Okay, here we go!!

The first day of our trip and I decided to cycle to Gent, just for warming up myself for the travel to Westerlo. The plan was to take the train with Valentijn and Stefanie and Michael too off course from Gent to Antwerp Central.. From then we had to cycle about 60 km to Westerlo. The journey from Deinze to Gent was very good! Nice and I could cycle with Mic the whole distance.. In the station of Gent we met up with V and S and prepared for our journey...
When we arrived in Antwerp we drove through the centre for quite a bit.. we were lost in the centre! But not for long our courageous boys asked someone how to get the hell out of there.. Then the journey began!! We drove four hours and hours!! And more hours and hours.. we picknicked next to to the Albert Canal and it was pretty sunny.. After our wee break we went off again, even had to use suncreme for our burned arms.. Was this the prelude to 4 days of sun and fun??

After more hours and getting exhausted (and very annoying, that is.. me getting annoyed) we finnally drove to Westerlo, then the next thing to do, was to find our hostel! We drove again and had to drive in the woods,.. that turned out to be quite bumpy :P And then we finally arrived at our Hostel.. It looked very nice at first sight.. We parked our Bikes and went inside.. I was already pretty tired (and had a bit of a temper coming on..), we found the owner of the hostel.. And what do ya now.. it turned out we didn't had any rooms!! Our names where not on the list.. I was getting a really bad temper now.. but Michael was still very calm and said it couldn't be.. When he asked to look under the month of June,.. our names came up very quickly.. The owner apologised and offered us a room (more of a broomcloset) for the 4 of us to sleep in (for free) and for just 2 nights, after that, we got to have a real room..

Well, after we settled in our rooms,.. I was in quite a shock really, that this had to happen to us :P.. but then I came to terms with it and helped tiding up the beds. After that we went for dinner and did some games downstairs and outside cos it was still a sunny day.. We played around and about and did lots of preporations for the next days.. Our first night went and came,.. it was pretty good.. After a shower.. (we didn't had a shower in our room so we had to go downstairs in the common used showers and even had to go outside to go to the toilet!) Breakfast was good,.. we decided to go for a walk in the city of Westerlo.. We shopped round and about (we went to Casa and Blokker and the more common stores.. we also have in Deinze) and did some sightseeing.. The second night in Westerlo and the entertainment was a quiz made by me, where we had much fun and a cool prize!! (Also a congrats to Valentijn for winning the prize)

Then the next day we went for a ride to Herentals and drove for an hour or something like that. We went to a place were we did a couple of sporting activities! It was called Netepark and we could do many things. Oh, we were fit :D.. Mic, me and Valentijn did some swimming, then we went minigolfing and we did some jumping on the trampoline.. then we went back and got to our new rooms! This was a very nice day, a bit rain but most of al some sun!

The next day we woke up very late and decided we'd go to Tongerlo, not that far from Westerlo. We visited the Abbey of Tongerlo and saw a lot of things.. the bad things was, it was noon so we went away to get some food. We dined at a wonderfull place, it was very good. The minute we were inside it started pouring so hard we heard the rain on the roof.. After a wonderfull desert we went back to the Abbey. There was a little bookshop where I even heard Moya AND Enya playing.. So this place is in my top 10 now :).. we strolled around again now everything was open and even went to the Da Vinci museum!! Unfortunatly we were just too late because it was closing. Damn.. but we saw a glimpse of the Da Vinci's 'The last Supper'.. (And err.. don't think it's the real one.. but it's the Eldest Replica of it.. Imagine that (!) Unfortunatly this was our very last day here.. the 3rd night was kinda stupid.. I didn't sleep too wel!

The day of departure.. after a good breakfast we drove back to Antwerp. The boys wanted to drive the whole way home.. but the girls weren't up for that! :S.. the day started really bad.. and it stayed bad.. so we had to disrupt our drive and went to the station of Mechelen and got back home.. And ironically it cleared up when we were sitting in the train!.. off course! This was the end of a nice trip!! Unfortunatly we didn't had much luck with the weather,.. but we've seen lots of things, we have done a lot of things and we've ben through much things as well :D

Thank you Valentijn and Stefanie and Michael for the great trip :)
Enjoy the little movie, a compilation of my and Mic's pictures...

Laterz..
xxSara

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TIP: Wait with the little movie till the song of the Month is over.. There is also a song playing with the pictures!!
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