Residence Hotel Antwerp

... wind dies down, honestly! We have six hours to wait in Heathrow, where we will buy stuff that's either cheaper or more familiar than stuff in Brussels, we will eat something (farewell weight watchers, knew my trousers wouldn't be baggy for long..), probably take the mickey out of English travellers in their football shirts and sit in the lounge and write on the blog.<br><br>Very excited about going to Thailand!!

... sun is shining, we enjoy the nice morning weather, I feel quite excited, my first trip on a sailing boat ever!! After 15 min Frank asks me to swith the radio compass on... so I go inside, and see some water on the floor. "Again" I think, since Frank worked a lot at the plumbery last times, so, water leaks, I am used to it! "Frank ! A water leak, again!" Frank gives me the helm en goes down inside. I hear he is busy but cannot really follow, since ...

... forward to kindly allow another vehicle to fill up at the same time. They promptly started, and before we could reverse back into their gap, a motor-bike had whizzed up. Trying to park a vehicle over 2m tall provided its usual fun and games. At one point we thought we had cracked it - we had found an underground car park which stated that it had a height restriction of over 3m. Down we went, only to find that after the descent the roof height dropped and we were not ...

... with Wattie singing to her own beat 'thunk thunk thunk' ........... First was me trying to read the map, harder then it looks when there is words like Diksmuide and Oudenaarde! Hence we were lost... in a matter of kms!! Finally signs for Brugge turned up and we decided to follow them! Found a nice car park in the shade... (bit warmer over here then Scotland!) and took to the streets by foot. We saw Belgiums most famous Belfort and ...

... T lovely? The Foam Museum was an excellent suggestion by last night's waitress. There was an exhibit by Joan Colom - photos from El Raval, Barcelona's red light district, also known politically-incorrectly as "Chinatown" not because there are any Chinese people there, but because they used to associate Chinese people with the poverty and prostitution found there. Maybe that's why Spanish women don't like Chinese men??? The photos were taken in ...

... there was one more event, the 'London's Hall of Horrors'. It included many wax statues and displays of various forms of the death penalty used throughout time, including strangling, grinding people over spiked wheels, and pretty much anything else you could imagine. The second part was a haunted house with live actors-not wax people- acting as inmates, which in concept shouldn't be bad at all for a grown 20 year-old by herself, but boy ...

... if you're unaware (as I was before learning about Amsterdam), it's the largest collection of his paintings in the world. The collection was very impressive - some of my favorites include Irises, Snow-Covered Field with a Harrow, Almond Blossoms, and my favorite - his self portrait in what appears to be a woman's hat. Something about that one had me cracking up. I'm uploading them all for you to see. Also, if you're bored at work and want ...

... province of Belgium) drink, simply because it has a French sounding name. The great thing about pinches is that they are small enough to drink for all night because the time that you spend waiting for the next beer is enough to ensure that you don't get too ******. A pinche is also always an easy drinking beer that isn't too heavy in taste or alcoholic content. Jupiler is one such beer that is considered 'light' in alcoholic content by Belgians. For your ...

... 1 punt, C = 5 punten " Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote. As in the Audrey Hepburn film. Capote is a revelation to me: his writing is outstanding and his characters are larger than life. Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott's. Classic tale of interdimensional experience. Both a mathematical fairytale and a satire on Victorian life. Up there with "The Wizard of Oz" and "Alice in Wonderland". The old-fashioned style of writing is tedious though. Ongoing Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.

... Luckily, we left empty handed. While Chris and Melanie sat back looking at a magazine, the other dude, who was now available, approached them and asked them if he could help them. Chris said no thanks to which the Jew dude said "can I show you a watch?" Damn, these guys are good! Chris took the bait but it wasn't really the sort of thing he's into. We ended up taking the guys business card and making up some excuse as to why we didn't buy...I felt like "are you ****ing nuts ...