Travel To Bastonge

 This morning we got up early to leave our houseboat in Amsterdam. As we hauled our luggage out of the house the coot was there sitting on a nest built on a floating tire. We said goodby to the coot and headed for the train. We took the Eurostar train into Brussels. This was a fast and smooth riding train. From Brussels we took a slower train into Belgium. From there we took a bus that wove through winding, curvy roads to our final destination of Bastonge, Belgium. We walked toward downtown not knowing exactly where to go. A woman on the sidewalk pointed us in the right direction. We found a tourist building where we got a map of the building and exact directions. Now here we are in Bastonge, ready to start learning about the battle of the bulge. We can tell some things are different already. Cash is preferred in Bastonge. Credit cards were preferred in the Netherlands. French is the predominant language in Bastonge. English was predominant in the Netherlands. We will get the hang of this eventually.