We’re still recovering from the trip. As David from Team Goldtroni, said, it’s not a vacation, it’s a trip.
I posted a day 4 video and post on Gadling. I doubt if my wife and I had found ourselves in Brussels on a vacation we would have ventured into the town of Gent, but that’s one [...]

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Kent here.
After days 1 and 2 and the uploading issues we had, I decided I couldn’t keep up the effort required to blog each days activities. It became too much to post the video, read the next day’s challenges and to check in with Gadling. So I’ll have reports from each day coming soon.
I just [...]

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We chose to head out of the city to see more of Holland. Here’s one example of a challenge that we really enjoyed. We really took our time and enjoyed the challenges, spending at least an hour at each one today.
Now we’re off to Brussels. I haven’t even looked at the challenges yet. There’ll be [...]

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After a 36 to 41 hour day for many of us, we were spent. Nearly everyone had issues with the T-Mobile connection in Cologne, but Steve has promised that this won’t affect anyone’s standings.
I gave up at 1:30 a.m. and tried again the next morning. Not only did I manage to get the contest videos [...]

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Team Gadling checking in!
The inaugural Competitours is off the ground!
All 11 teams sporting bright yellow Flyertalk messenger bags have made it from Newark to Frankfurt and then on to Cologne where we’ll begin our challenges in just 15 minutes!
All of us are going on 24 hours without sleep before we’ve even started the challenges. Some [...]

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