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Dec19
Does this video clip of us in Belgium this weekend make anything I have to say on the subject completely redundant?
See, Mum, Dad, Clare and me on a humungous big wheel, part of the Plaisers d'Hiver festival type affair that was going in Brussels this weekend. I hastily agreed to go on this thing to get out of going ice skating (there were also rinks set up, along with millions of stalls and other entertainments) and then remembered how much I don't like such rides. Man alive it was high. Not as high as the London Eye, which I don't mind at all, but smaller and more travelling-fairground, hmm.
Brussels was great. Mum and Dad came over on Friday night, I cooked them chilli and we had a quiet night in ready for an early start Saturday morning. We were meant to be on the Eurotunnel about 9am, but there were earlier cancellations so we had a bit of an annoying delay, just like the last time we tried to take the tunnel actually. The drive the other side went quite smoothly, until we hit Brussels itself, I don't recommend trying to drive around there. The sat-nav mostly kept up, except when we went under the big old tunnels that cut through the cities. It's mostly true what they say, everyone drives like a mental out there and they don't make any allowances for tourists, but no-one rammed us or anything, we didn't see any road rage at all.
The one thing I was a bit concerned about was parking at our hotel, there was none, the websites suggests using "public parking". Thought this might be expensive, but we dumped the car in a nearby underground multi storey and it only came to about a tenner for the whole weekend. The hotel was great, great location (I think this map is centred on the hotel, it's not exactly where the red pin is) just off "Grand Place", which is like Leicester Square there.
The beer was good, found a particularly great pub called Delerium Cafe / Bar with 2000 beers on in the huge Jalehouse / Frog and Frigate style mass of bodies downstairs, and probably about twenty on draught upstairs. I liked it there.
Food was quite good too, would probably be fantastic if you ate more than I did, there are huge displays of seafood and the like everywhere, though we stuck to Italian. (If you're reading this and you don't know me, I'm a vegan, it's no slur on the menus of Brussels).
Shopping also great, there are lots of great looking places in Brussels, saw quite a few things I'd like but didn't want to be too laden down with stuff. Stopped off at Cité Europe on the way back and stocked up on mustard and wine and a few spirits for Christmas. Home in time for a Chinese takeaway and bed, and back to work again yesterday morning. Still, very very nice weekend while it lasted, nice to spend some time with my folks where we're all mostly just relaxing.
Strange side note www.britishcornershop.co.uk is the number one google result for Maille mustard. It's not English, and though I love it I really try not to buy it here as it's about 1/4 of the price in France. I only brought five jars back this time as that's probably as much as I can eat within the best-before date. Maybe there's some money to be made in importing this stuff... Phil Vickery also writes about it, I thinkI've mentioned him before, possibly he's from Folkestone.
Time to go to work, I'll upload the pictures later, but if you've still not had enough, here's a clip of an interesting merry go round I saw:
more details in the pictures, coming later.
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Jan31
Watched football, a rarity for me, but Portsmouth vs Southampton was on BBC1... So I sat watching in the flat in Folkestone on my own, with constant updates via text and phone from the mates who were gathered in the Chav Monkey in Fareham, drunk before I even got up. They ended up at the Frog and Frigate in Southampton, and I'm gutted I didn't arrange my weekend better. So heading that way in a few weeks hopefully.
Apart from the the main activity of the weekend was sitting in waiting for the carpet man to measure up the flat, so I had no choice but to sit on my arse all day really. Headed out to the shops, but basically a very pleasantly unproductive weekend.
Back in London in time for 24, wouldn't you know it Jack's got himself into a pickle again! He's been sacked for being an ex heroin addict (are you listening Mr Doherty?), and got a new girlfriend, who's the daughter of the secretary of defence. He (James Heller, played by William Devane, it's Knots Landing we must have recognised him from) seems to be the strong political character so far, who on earth is the new president? He looks a bit disposable to me.
Other tasks in the flat included having a bit of a look at the new blinds and the new fireplace, both fitted while I wasn't there... bit of a hitch with the fire, it looks good and all works well but it looks like the inside is blistering a bit, that's not right surely. Tried to take pictures of the fire lit and looking good, but I keep getting too much glare off the window, will have to try and take one at an angle like this one I just swiped:
Riva 67 gas fire
Our fire looks just like that, but our walls are not red.
OOH, and we've booked our honeymoon now I think... California! California here we come, right back where we started from... well not quite where we started from, but if it was then the title music to The OC would be like our theme tune. I watched that this weekend as part of my lazy time, it's not as bad as I thought.
2140 mails this morning, blee.
