In four hours I am getting on a train to go home. Well, to my other home. The home that was home for the longest and will alwasy be home even though here is home now. I haven’t been back in five months! I just worked it out by flicking back through my filofax and…
I don’t know if I have mentioned this before but I am kinda running now. Kinda, because it’s not yet an incredibly regular event due to multiple travel interruptions. But it has occured once every two or three weeks, which as anyone who has known me longer than ten minutes will know, is sort of…
Shoe shopping is a nightmare for me. I really hate it. Partly because I have big feet (in proportion of course – I don’t look like Sideshow Bob, I am pretty tall) and the shop assistants have actually been know to raise their eyebrows when I request my size. Um, hello, I know lots of…
so it’s a bit of a fuzzy photo coz I was trying to be sneaky, but this was a little moment that made my day… a Eurocrat outside the Commission HQ with his posh suit, briefcase… and flowery bright umbrella!
One of the things I like about Belgium is its tendency to put public holidays in the middle of the week, rather than always on a Monday as in the UK. Yes, this makes it a little more awkward to take a long weekend, but is that really fun anyway when everyone else in the…
filled with new friends eating waffles with strawberries and hot chocolate sauce lying on canal bridges in the sunshine (fruit) beers on sunny terraces enjoying the spring flowers everywhere wandering the canals in the evening striking up conversations with friendly tipsy strangers outside bars trying new beers at Delirium being inspired (again) by the royal…