While planning for our year, both in advance and on-the-go, TripAdvisor became our sixth family member. We poured over reviews and suggestions of restaurants, apartments, hikes, hotels, trains, and self-guided tours. As a school writing assignment, we even studied what makes a good review and...

You know that song, “Make new friends, but keep the old…one is silver and the other gold?” I think a new line should be added — “And get to know the old ones better!” We ate our way through a wonderful 2 nights with the Howard family in Brussels with a full...

A few days ago ,while in Belgium, we stayed with a family named the Howards. They had a cat named Leo. He is black and he catches mice, brings them back to the Howards, and eats them. While we are here in Germany we are staying in an army base. The family that lives in this house are  the...

Two days ago we went to see the Howards in Belgium.  We toured the whole day with our tour guide, Mr Howard!  We saw (and had) lots of things from the European Union to eating the best french fries in the world!  We also saw the world-famous statue of a boy :)  My dad wouldn’t let...