Brugge, Belgium & Paris, France
As mentioned in my last post, Lana and I planned to do some traveling while in Belgium for my TLP flying course and we did. I flew in with my F-16 on 3 Oct and Lana flew from Munich to Brussels the same day. After dropping my things off at the dorm room on base and packing a bag for the weekend, the other pilot who flew to Belgium with me for TLP, Chris, drove me to the Charleroi train station. I was in Brussels about 50 minuets later where I met Lana before we caught a train on to Brugge for the weekend where we would spend our anniversary on 6 Oct.
Brugge is a very nice town in the northwestern part of Belgium and is referred to as the "Venice of the North." Lana had done some research on the internet and found us a nice hotel in the city center for a couple of nights. Brugge used to be a very rich city during the Medieval times as it was a main port of the North Sea. It's great because it was essentially untouched by the world wars, and most of the old buildings and churches are still intact. One of the old churches in town had Michelangelo's Madonna status in it...one of his only works outside of Italy. As in Venice, there are many small canals throughout the town and we took a boat trip while there. We both thought Brugge was the perfect place for our 1st anniversary!
After a week of flying at TLP, Lana and I took the bullet train from Charleroi to Paris for the weekend leaving on Saturday morning...we reached our goal of making it to Paris before leaving Italy. Again, Lana did a good job and found us a nice hotel close to the center, near the Paris Opera House. We both had been to Paris quite a few years ago, but it was great to travel there together. While in Paris we saw the Paris Opera House, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, the Arch de Triumph and the Basilique du Sacré Cœur among other smaller things. Paris is another one of those great cities that wasn't destroyed during WWII, and has many great places to see. We went to the top of the Eiffel Tower on Saturday night to watch the sun set before going out for a nice dinner that evening. Sunday morning I went for a run and my route took me by the Opera and through the gardens at the Louvre...a great venue to say the least! After getting cleaned up, Lana and I went to a church we found on the internet to worship with some French people. It was cool worshiping the same God with others from a different culture.
Lana and I have seen so much in our lives before and since we've been married...it would be interesting to see a map of the places we've been. To add to our list, I have to go to Amsterdam, Netherlands the weekend of 15 Nov to attend training in the altitude chamber. If you remember way back to a post of mine in early 2004, we did altitude training then as well; it's required every three years, and I have to get it done before moving to Korea. So, soon I'll explain how TLP went and about our time in Amsterdam. Enjoy!
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Brugge is a very nice town in the northwestern part of Belgium and is referred to as the "Venice of the North." Lana had done some research on the internet and found us a nice hotel in the city center for a couple of nights. Brugge used to be a very rich city during the Medieval times as it was a main port of the North Sea. It's great because it was essentially untouched by the world wars, and most of the old buildings and churches are still intact. One of the old churches in town had Michelangelo's Madonna status in it...one of his only works outside of Italy. As in Venice, there are many small canals throughout the town and we took a boat trip while there. We both thought Brugge was the perfect place for our 1st anniversary! 
After a week of flying at TLP, Lana and I took the bullet train from Charleroi to Paris for the weekend leaving on Saturday morning...we reached our goal of making it to Paris before leaving Italy. Again, Lana did a good job and found us a nice hotel close to the center, near the Paris Opera House. We both had been to Paris quite a few years ago, but it was great to travel there together. While in Paris we saw the Paris Opera House, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, the Arch de Triumph and the Basilique du Sacré Cœur among other smaller things. Paris is another one of those great cities that wasn't destroyed during WWII, and has many great places to see. We went to the top of the Eiffel Tower on Saturday night to watch the sun set before going out for a nice dinner that evening. Sunday morning I went for a run and my route took me by the Opera and through the gardens at the Louvre...a great venue to say the least! After getting cleaned up, Lana and I went to a church we found on the internet to worship with some French people. It was cool worshiping the same God with others from a different culture.
Lana and I have seen so much in our lives before and since we've been married...it would be interesting to see a map of the places we've been. To add to our list, I have to go to Amsterdam, Netherlands the weekend of 15 Nov to attend training in the altitude chamber. If you remember way back to a post of mine in early 2004, we did altitude training then as well; it's required every three years, and I have to get it done before moving to Korea. So, soon I'll explain how TLP went and about our time in Amsterdam. Enjoy!
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