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Carrying a camera everywhere has the potential to be very handy. It was rather cold this morning in Portland and I happened upon these in the parking lot.

When I go back to London I'm going to make it a point to get a hotel near this tube stop just so I can enjoy this view at least once a day.

Mom said I should take pictures for food magazines. I'm not sure about that, but it's fun to think about. This was dessert after an amazing lunch of two different preparations of grilled lamb at a restaurant named Troia near Waterloo station.

It was rainy, cloudy, cold, and in general unpleasant. I had been out if it for most of the day. The others were in various shops and I decided to walk around and see what I could see and happened to glance this way. The day was suddenly better after that moment.

If you're in a foreign country you have to try the things that are banned in your own. It's an unwritten rule of travel. We happened upon an absinthe bar and, in our inexperience, ordered flaming shots. I did not see any green fairies, but then again I only had one.

We were walking around Gent trying to find some place to eat dinner and went around this cathedral at least twice. We ended up eating and drinking at an Irish pub and then moving on to the Delirium Pub for midnight. There was much drinking and many happy people involved, as well as one very drunk, very loud, very generous Belgian man who kept yelling at us in Dutch about Belgian politics and buying us drinks. All in all, a very good night.

and all you get is this lousy blog post. I forgot to write anything. Actually, that's a lie. I didn't forget, I just didn't. Mostly because for almost the entire time I was internet-less and I was savoring it a little bit. This was a novel concept, being without the giant hive mind for weeks at a time. I didn't miss it. There's nothing on here that I need on a daily basis except email and even that can wait for long stretches of time. I did write up a summary of what we did up to a certain date, but it's long and boring so I'm not going to post it. Instead, I'm going to pick a few photos that I uploaded when I did have net access and post those. Enjoy!

Well, the time is almost here. Tomorrow at this time we'll be on our way to the next grand adventure. I'm sure it'll be a grand time, even with the possible freaking out and the airplane sliding off the end of the runway and other events that probably won't happen. I'm going to try to post every day, whether it's just a picture or a full writeup of the day. Follow us here and at ephrog.com for K's point of view.