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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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May12
Going to spend a fairly lazy day around the pubs of Canterbury, starting with a lunch at Wagamama, and HEY, we got a voucher:
That's from this feature that a friend alerted us to, we'd be going there today anyway though, nice.
Had a good week, felt busy because it was short. Been struggling with some code, at work and on this site. I rewrote a calendar that's in use on several work sites, including Legoland Holidays and Legoland Hotels where it's working really well, and on the "no availability" page of Show and Stay where it still needs a bit of work. The "not live" version of that page is A MESS right now, I didn't like leaving it over the weekend, hope I can remember where I as up to.
See I've also put the sweet titles / tool tip code on both of those sites too. Still working on an experimental version for here too, which I can't quite finish off. It's not just that the colour's changed from black to purple when you hover over a link, now the hover stays in place so long as you are hovered over either the original link, or the new hover itself. I am wanting to put more related links and images and things in there, but at the moment as soon as your mouse runs over any link inside the purple hover box (or in fact any [em]tag[/em] within the hover, like an image or some bold or [em]italics[/em] text) the code says "your mouse is over something new now, I'm closing the box" which is not my intention... maybe I need to get the coordinates of the new box and say keep it open while your mouse is within those coords, and not just when the onMouseOver reports something new...
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Sep22
Pictures
Had a good weekend, reasonably uneventful but just NICE! Intended to start off with a quiz at The Grand, but they called Clare on the day to say it was cancelled, for a private function. Good job she had called to reserve a table and left her number, or possibly they googled the number and found out it was us and didn't fancy the competition. Either way, no quizzing action.
Saturday went to Canterbury for a change. Lunch at Ask, actually genuinely for a change - it was a lovely sunny day, and we were hungry right on lunch time, so there was an hour's wait for our first choice. Pasta and vino in Ask were great, and we got a table overlooking the river, splendid. Did a bit of shopping, met up with Dom and Jen for a coffee, spent more than we'd planned in Karl's, had a pint in The Parrot, and then home.
There's a food fair on in Canterbury next weekend, so looking forward to that. We're going to try and make a proper day and evening of it, maybe even cocktails in The Cuban as a crazily overpriced treat.
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