Springboards

Give us this day …

Well I can’t quite believe this. I have trouble getting online while in a hotel room yet here I am on a Thalys train hurtling along at 300 kms/hr (or we will once we really get going) between Brussels and Paris and I am online.  Isn’t that just awesome? Oops, we’re on a bit of a lean at the moment, that feels a little disconcerting while typing.

Time to reflect back on my time in Brussels. The things I liked most – the buildings in Grande Place with the magnificient architecture, looking around the touristy novelty shops, the nice food, the crisp cold, listening to all the different languages being spoken, observing people and their different behaviours, and oh! The bread! The bread is absolutely delicious.  It’s how bread should be, scrummy with butter, absolutely fresh, real bread that will be stale the next day, not last on a supermarket shelf for a week.

A break for a meal there, it’s like being on a plane. Another piece of delicious bread as part of a meat and salad dinner. Roast beef wrapped around some unfamiliar vegetable that looks a bit like onion but certainly doesn’t taste like it, has a slight taste of aniseed. Any ideas on what it is anyone? Send me a reply