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- May 5, 2012:
Brockville, ON
- January 5, 2012:
Grenoble, FR
- January 4, 2012:
Switzerland
- January 3, 2012:
Montreux, CH
- January 1, 2012:
Venice, IT
- December 31, 2011:
Zurich, CH
- December 30, 2011:
Liechtenstein
- December 29, 2011:
Berlin, DE
- December 28, 2011:
Hamburg, DE
- December 27, 2011:
Fulda, DE
- December 26, 2011:
Venlo, NL
- December 25, 2011:
Cologne, DE
- December 24, 2011:
Krefeld, DE
- December 23, 2011:
Brussels, BE
- December 22, 2011:
London, UK
- December 21, 2011:
Cambridge, UK
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Top photos from December 23rd, 2011
December 23rd, 2011
Walked to London-St Pancras International for the 8am EuroStar to Brussels. I was hoping to have some time to explore both the train and the platform, but was surprised to discover airport-style security and procedures at St Pancras and so was not able to get a shot of the EuroStar either there or in Brussels. The Chunnel was... well, dark. And my seat on the EuroStar was marketed as a "window" seat, but it had a pillar between the large windows and so I could not see out. It was fairly anticlimactic and I ended up sleeping most of the trip instead. In Brussels I watched trains come and go at the station, finding them dirty and unattractive. I caught the ICE at 14:25 to Cologne, where I got off the train, walked across the platform, and boarded the train to Duisburg that was leaving so soon I was moving before the ICE that I had gotten off!
Brussels, Belgium
Brussels is the capital of the European Union.
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I took the Eurostar from London to Brussels to connect to the ICE into Germany, taking a few minutes at the platform to watch trains come and go in the rain at the platform.
Liege, Belgium
Liege is near the Belgian-Dutch-German border.
Dusseldorf, Germany
Dusseldorf is an industrial city in the Ruhr Valley.
