belgian itinerary...

we have a plan!!!!!  or do we??  pick davina up at brussels airport 1:00... beer and fries in brussels, cultural experience, drive to zealand, stay the night, meal with more beer and conversation!  check!!  or, traffic is really bad...  arrive 1hr late, miss the turn-off to brussels, going to gent, too hungry, so stop off to try and find affligem, lost affligem, getting hungry, lots of fries shops are closed...  what's going on??  FLANDERS DAY!!!  National Holiday!!!  shops are shut...  WELCOME TO BELGIUM!!  nevermind...  arnout, patrick and i have a car, laughs and no idea where we can go.  let's redesign the itinerary and just enjoy!!  good plan...

  found some fries!!  tick!

found some beer!  tick!

we then went to gent, sint niklas and had many more beers (well, arnout and i did as patrick was driving...  thanks patrick!), we didn't buy any belgian chocolate this time, so i'll just have to go back!!  haha.  hotels were all booked out being a public holiday and all, so we went back to arhnem.  i had now booked my flight to london...  do i leave saturday or sunday? having too much fun, so i leave suday!!  from dortmund, germany.  

saturday...  sleep in, no...  patrick calls and arnout and i jump in the 'electric' car and we have our cultural experience not in zealand, but in utrecht...  where arnout works... i have my obligatory croquette sandwich!  and we go to a museum, the dick bruna house and the Rietveld Schröder House...  OH MY GOODNESS...  AMAZING DESIGN!  but where would i put all my shoes?  haha.  

davina's turn to drive the electric car!!!  woohooooo!!!  right tight...  right tight!!!

then running late again...  check...  have another beer, a licorice ice-cream and head to sjoerd's house for a hello davina dinner!  yay!!!  thanks sjoerd!!

back to arnout's to get changed and take a bike ride around town and back to sjoerd's for his birthday party...  HAPPY BIRTHDAY SJOERD!!  actually the second of his birthday's i've celebrated with him at his house!!  hopefully not the last!!  after maybe possibly a few more grolschs than needed, walk back to arnouts for my last night in arnhem this time.  (oh and of course a call to nikko!  hi nikko!!!).  breakfast in a lovely cafe in arnhem with arnout, patrick, hanuka and unfortunately not sjoerd (still asleep after his birthday party), car swap and drive to dortmund to go to next stop london...  

got a little harassed at the airport.  lucky i had my onward itinerary printed, think the customs guy thought i wanted to stay... no!!  i just want to visit my friends and then go to america!!!  haha.  luckily, he believed me and let me through!!

God bless national express for having wifi on ther bus service, so i can update my blog for free and not have to waste quality time catching up with friends or sleeping time updating it!!!  woohoooo!!

ok.  so, off to london victoria and then have to decide by then what to do thos afternoon before i meet up with maria.  might go visit st barnies.

thanks arnout, patrick, sjoerd and hanuka for a lovely time in belgium, netherlands and germany!!

love to everyone.

xx