An Ardennes Road Trip Chapter 3: French Fried Farewell

Among other things, like being located in between Luxembourg and our home in Amsterdam, Belgium is known for being the home of a handful of the world’s tastiest treats. Waffles, beer, mussels, chocolate, chocolate mussels, beer waffles, to name just a few. I have actually even heard tales of waffles being sold with chocolate on …

An Ardennes Road Trip Chapter 2: Luxembourg

Post riverfront pastry fest, we pulled back into the budget hotel’s parking lot around 11:58, just in time for a noon checkout. “No big deal, we’ve got this. Done it a million times.” I told Julia. We ran into a teeny-tiny problem as we tried to walk back in to the hotel, though. The security …

An Ardennes Road Trip Chapter 1: Givet, France

One of the caveats of the super cheap car rental deal we found was that the pick-up location was on the outskirts of Amsterdam. As a result, the Ardennes road trip began in a town called Hoofddorp, Holland. We actually spent our first week on Dutch soil last year in Hoofddorp, so it was nice …