Skyscanner Flight Search Engine

Before I take off to US (3 ½ weeks vacation!), I would like to introduce a new flight search tool I have added to my blog. It is not a secret that Skyscanner has the quickest and most convenient (at least in my opinion) search engine online. And the fact that they are not travel agency but independent search engine (you get a link to a travel agency or directly to airline/hotel) is a major plus point.

The End of a Benelux Era

“Bonjour monsieur”… “Bonjour madame” … “Comment vas-tu?”

It is over… it is finally over! For the last two month I was working most of the time in Luxembourg and Belgium, and boy… they all speak French! It is not like I have any problem with it, I just don’t speak the language… and I’m a bit tired of living in hotels.

Last week, instead of flying to London, I took a train from Luxembourg to Brussels to spend the weekend there. Since we already been in Brussels and out friend were busy on Saturday (during the day), we went to Bruges (couple of photos here: http://picasaweb.google.com/john.markh/20081213WeekendInBelgium).

That evening we were in for huge surprise: Christmas festival on the Brussels main squire. Although it was packed with locals and tourists, the music, lights, dances and the atmosphere were brilliant! I took two short movies with my new (and green, literally green) camera: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1228114364154268444&hl=en http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-73156388038689574&hl=en Then, after the festival (well, we didn’t really stay till the end – it was too cold), our friends (N & A) took us to a local gem: a pub with history! The place is run by Moroccan grandpa who collected “stuff” (there is no other word to describe the collection) and randomly placed in through the floors. It includes paintings, posters, broken sewing machines, statues, lamps, etc. And, they serve delicious raspberry flavoured wine which can make you really “happy”...

Well, time to go... John.