Sunday, October 23, 2011

The train saga continues....

Of course Steve would not accept the blame for my night of wandering around random cities, so we went to the train station the next day to figure it out. To start out with, in Belgium many street/ city/store signs are both in French and Dutch. So the city of Leuven is Dutch and in French it is Louvain. The second thing to know is that there are Dutch parts of Belgium and French parts of Belgium, and when the Dutch  part has something like a university or a city, the other part wants it to. So when the Dutch part created a city named Louvain, the French part created a city called the new Louvain. I had gone to the French speaking region instead of the Dutch speaking because neither one of us knew about the two regions and there need to copy each other. Now here's a test for anybody reading, from the picture below to the right which train would you have taken to meet Steve for his meeting?

2 comments:

  1. I'm confused, i dont blame you for taking the wrong train!

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  2. So glad to hear about this blog. I'll be reading a lot. Glad to hear you've figured out one piece to the puzzle. Glad you had some means of communication in the mall. MOM

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