Brussels

A quick sojourn to Brussels was the order of the weekend. We spent the day walking around looking at the sights and drinking beer.

We then carried the beer drinking through into the night in a bar, where I tried and failed to remember any of my luxembourgish, when met with 4 real-life Luxembourgers.

Fietscultuur

It's not that the Dutch love their bikes, they don't think of them like that, they're merely an extension of their bodies. This is probably the reason why I love the Dutch so much

Come visit me and I shall take you here

Discovered this place at the weekend when Nic and Richard came to visit. I quote, Nic: "that was the best cake I've ever had"; Richard: "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, can we do round 2 guys?"

Bagel, bagel, bagel, I made you out of dough...

Dutch is a rather resourceful language: just take an english noun (think tennis, football or bagel) and add '-en' and you've got yourself a brand new verb!

Reflections

This was the sight that greeted me whilst cycling along the canal on a sunny Sunday afternoon. I just had to dismount and snap it

The Celebrity Mango

The Celebrity Mango is the cocktail of 2011. Ingredients: 7 shots of rum per glass, one mango per glass, way too much sugar per glass and a healthy swig of tropical fruit juice and a splash of ice. Needless to say, you will get drunk merely by being in the same room as this drink...

Tafeltennissen bij De Nassau

The De Nassau table tennis competition was a heated, pitched, furied battle between 10 teams. "De Gym Meisjes" (the gym girls) on the left were formidable opposition, knocking us off the top spot we'd held since the inception of the competition way back in November. Still, coming in in second place isn't half bad!