In my COMM 150 class, we talked about giving informative speeches during the next class meeting. During my break, I started practicing a bit, but I had so much to share about Dominica that there's no way I could say it in 5 minutes.
We had the afternoon free to do as we pleased. Hoping take a short trip to Luxembourg, I asked the front desk about train tickets. Unfortunately they said the ride is about 3 hours, so it's a whole day trip. They suggested going to Ghent, which is only 30 minutes away by train. We still had to book travel arrangements for London this weekend, so that was top priority. Searching for the best prices on transportation and accommodations, we lost the whole afternoon to booking.
We finally settled on a reasonably-priced hotel a little outside of London with 3 rooms, 4 people each. This will be interesting since we have 5 girls (plus Lindsey who is staying in a nicer hotel on her own with her reward points). I'm sure it will work out just fine though.
The train to London is really expensive, about 120 Eu one way. I think most of the cost is due to planning the trip the day before when we really should have been booking a week or two ago. We went to the train station downtown to buy those, hoping to get a better price than online. Luckily the bus tickets are more like 45 Eu, even though that will be a 7 hour ride instead of just 2 hours on train. The way I see it: more time to sleep!
When we left the train station, we went to the mojito bar and I got a delicious mango smoothie. The others were saying that they wanted fries so I was expecting to go a Belgian fry stand on a street corner a few blocks away...but nope! We ended up at McDonald's.
We had the afternoon free to do as we pleased. Hoping take a short trip to Luxembourg, I asked the front desk about train tickets. Unfortunately they said the ride is about 3 hours, so it's a whole day trip. They suggested going to Ghent, which is only 30 minutes away by train. We still had to book travel arrangements for London this weekend, so that was top priority. Searching for the best prices on transportation and accommodations, we lost the whole afternoon to booking.
We finally settled on a reasonably-priced hotel a little outside of London with 3 rooms, 4 people each. This will be interesting since we have 5 girls (plus Lindsey who is staying in a nicer hotel on her own with her reward points). I'm sure it will work out just fine though.
The train to London is really expensive, about 120 Eu one way. I think most of the cost is due to planning the trip the day before when we really should have been booking a week or two ago. We went to the train station downtown to buy those, hoping to get a better price than online. Luckily the bus tickets are more like 45 Eu, even though that will be a 7 hour ride instead of just 2 hours on train. The way I see it: more time to sleep!
When we left the train station, we went to the mojito bar and I got a delicious mango smoothie. The others were saying that they wanted fries so I was expecting to go a Belgian fry stand on a street corner a few blocks away...but nope! We ended up at McDonald's.
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