Belgium; Wednesday, 28 June, 2006

I checked out of the hotel and for the second time within three days took my bags to the luggage lockers at the station. From the station I caught the train back towards Luxembourg, this time getting off at Coo, about 55Km south east of Liege.

The main attraction in Coo is the waterfall, which is quite spectacular. Then to add to this attraction they added a chairlift which takes you up over the river into the hills above for stunning views of the area. This has then be much elaborated on and the area is now a theme park with rides and a small animal park, all of which can be seen with a day pass or by paying individually for each attraction by itself. In the end I decided the chairlift was enough for me (and at €6 quite expensive!)

After spending some time at the top station of the chairlift and stopping for a bite to eat in the fun park I wandered back to the station to catch the train back to Liege.

My original plan had been to get back into Liege about 3:45, which would have given me about an hour and a half's sightseeing time before I needed to pick up my luggage and catch the train to Brussels. Unfortunately this was without "An Incident involving the police at Liege Gare du Palais" which meant that I didn’t get to the station until almost 4:30, just enough time to have a look around the Cathedral before heading back to the station.

Thankfully I had built enough time in for getting back to Brussels to catch the last Eurostar of the day, because all the trains were still in chaos, trains kept changing platform with only a couple of minutes notice and trains would go from being on time to very late in a couple of seconds. In the end the train left almost a quarter of an hour late, not enough to have any major effect on making the connection in Brussels, but the constant appearing then disappearing from departure screens, and the regular platform changes were enough to give my heart a strong work out!

I arrived at Midi at the same time as checkin was opening, so was able to sail through and flop into a seat in the bar with a large beer, awaiting the call to board for the journey home.