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World Travel for Almost Nothing #4

Jul 17, 2010 2 Comments by Vago

Tweet If you missed the story of how I met my wife, let me remind you. I was couchsurfing at her family’s house in Morocco. Couchsurfing likes to remind people that it’s not a dating site, but in fact, it is a place where I’ve met many of my closest friends and the woman I [...]

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Laundry in Ghent, Belgium

Oct 08, 2009 No Comments by Vago

Tweet Rafael was kind enough to pick up some maps from a very cool tourist office so the next day I took a shorter train trip to Ghent, a very hip, very cool little town. Ghent has the coolest wallpaper store in the world. Wow. Sadly, it rained all day, I woke up with a [...]

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Vagobond in Brussels Again

Oct 08, 2009 No Comments by Vago

Tweet I really do love Brussels. The funny thing about it is that I really had no expectations for Brussels and no real desire to go to Belgium at all. Luckily for me it was a cheap flight destination, I got lucky to couchsurf with Rafael, a man who became a good friend instantly, and [...]

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Quick update…

Oct 05, 2009 No Comments by Vago

Tweet In Belgium, went for coffee in Luxembourg yesterday, still am in love with Brussels and discovering I love the rest of Belgium too (don’t worry, I know Luxembourg is a different country) and today I am doing laundry in Ghent. I have to pee really bad, but there’s now bathroom in the laundromat. I [...]

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Vagobond in Belgium

Apr 24, 2009 No Comments

Tweet 4/24/09 Let me get this out of the way, I expected absolutely nothing from Belgium. On the way from Rotterdam the train passed by Antwerp and I had nothing but a sense of dread and foreboding. The place just seemed evil. I’m not joking, the smog, the shape of the cathedrals, it just seemed [...]

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