Back from Belgium ...

I've uploaded some photos of my weekend to flickr, and will do some more tomorrow (filled up my flash card!). until we get broadband it takes quite a long time to do, even though I reduced the size of each photo to something more manageable than 2mB ...

Had a great time anyway, with the possible exception of navigating in Belgian towns, where signposting seems to be pretty minimal - even noticed a few Belgian drivers who appeared to be lost!

So what did we do?

- In Bruges, went on a boat trip round the canals, visited the chocolate museum, ate sugared waffles, drank beer out of those enormous glasses that look like large test-tubes (fortunately, judging by the looks on various teenagers faces, ours were not the only children with embarrassing parents ...!)
- In Ypres, went to the Menin Gate for the Last Post, and visited the Hooge Crater Museum, and the Hooge Crater itself
- In Mons, found two wool-shops (Phildar & Veritas) - broke my yarn diet and bought some yummy pink yarns from Phildar for the tweedy jacket in IK Knitscene, and some rather nice random Adriafil wool from Veritas (might make a Clapotis scarf, there again might be too busy with Curly Whirlies ...!)
- In Luxembourg, walked around the old city, and visited the castle at Bourscheid (just like something out of Disney)
- In Waterloo, climbed the Butte de Lion monument (legs still hurting!)
- In Brussels, got very lost indeed ...!
- In Calais, found a really lovely bar called "Au Calice" - don't ask me the street name, but it's between the theatre, and the hotel de ville ...

And all this in 3 days ... exhausted just thinking about it! Have nearly finished the cable top, and will then have some spare time to get on with the website for Mid Kent Knit & Natter, and my contribution to the CW blog, that's unless I have a moment of virtue and do some housework (having done very little of that for some time, the place looks like a bomb's hit it, and John was moved to remark over the weekend that every time he opened a door, some wool fell on him - lucky it was only wool, I think!)