IKEA detour and back to Germany

Seeing as Chris and I have not been to IKEA before this was a welcome idea and something new for us to do, so we popped our shoes on and then popped into the car and over the boarder into Belgium where there is a HUGE IKEA store.

We were amazed with the size of this store, it would be easy to spend an entire day in there and despite the fact that we got through the store at a decent pace we still managed to spend hours in there! There were many nice house hold items, and if we had a house it would be fantastic and we would have been quite tempted to buy many various items (including a kitchen set up we really really liked!) but as all we have with us are already over stuffed back packs our purchases had to be quite limited. We settled with a small little touch lamp that is in the shape of a cartoon ghost that glows blue. Just what we always wanted!

After this eye opening tour we head back to Horsts home where we were met by Kora, who then, after a quick early dinner drove us back to Germany, which honestly only took 30 minutes. It is not far at all.

We were divided on what we were wanting to do tonight, a quiet night in, out for dinner, out for drinks? So many options! We settled on meeting Max for a quiet drink and then head back home for a ‘Skype date’ with Chris’ dad. It was lovely to talk to him again and catch up with all the news of home and actually chatted for quite some time. It’s always nice to catch up with loved ones.

A few quick games of cards I decided to call it a night as I had quite a headache, however, Chris and Kora both managed to make quite a night for themselves drinking beer until 4am, they seemed to have great fun, laughing and enjoying themselves, but found it a little hard to rise the following morning!

written by  Chris and Emily on July 16, 2009 from Trier, Germany
from the travel blog: Europe 2009
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