No airlawgirl, it's just that you spelled it that way before while proclaiming your expertise on the area. Maybe it's just me, but if I went to someplace "all the time", then I think I'd know its name. But please, there was no need to apologize--whether or not you consider me an expert on the city I've lived in for 5 years doesn't matter to me in the slightest!

We did go to Brugge on Saturday and to Antwerp on Sunday. We spent Friday and the evenings in Brussels.

HUH? Apologize? BTilke, I think you're believing your own hype!

And Dorothy- that WAS a good weekend trip from Texas-nice-going! I like the craziness of it, and you got to see some of the best parts!

Heated debate on my own post and I didn't even start it!

Margate- you're making me laugh again! ah well, encore au boulot!

sorry, MK2- you're quite right- didn't mean to hijack your post!

Airlawgirl:Please translate so I can determine whether or not I've been insulted.

encore au boulot=back to work (lit. again to the work) I've got a lot to do-sayonara!

Thank you,

Airlawgirl speaks so authoritatively whenever she posts, I just assumed she was an expert even if she didn't identify herself as such.

My dear, you're more than welcome to hijack my post, very in the spirit of things may I add too!

Re my Royal Windsor Hotel review.

I've gone to Boston for a long weekend from Dublin. It was great and many "shopping" trips for 3 nights pop up in travel agents here in the winter. It's no longer for me than going NY to California for a weekend, why not it great fun!