diff --git a/content/blog/wk7day7.md b/content/blog/wk7day7.md index 2cc021b..bdd59b9 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk7day7.md +++ b/content/blog/wk7day7.md @@ -1,7 +1,81 @@ --- -title: "Week 7, Sunday:" +title: "Week 7, Sunday: To Bruxelles" date: 2024-09-15T21:55:00+02:00 -draft: true --- -{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}} +{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/sezza.png" alt="Credit: Sezza, YouTube" >}} + +Yesterday at 04:00 Marina and I both heard some voices on the camping site, we think it was Nando +bringing somebody to their final resting place. Last night, we were these people! Having found our +pillow at around 03:45, the 10am alarm clock was somewhat _persona non grata_ in our _Pipowagen_. +But, the bladder has something to say as well, for Marina even the second time ... but we were up on +our feet and nommed a little bit of breakfast and at around 10:50 we made our way to the car, found +Christel and reported back on the situation at her neighrbor's place, joining the family in the +backyard of Arend and Esther's place just before 11:00. + +We enjoyed a coffee together as Job came round on his loaner bike. Job was en route to Utrecht this +morning, for a dinner with friends. Not being able to withstand his puppydog eyes, we drove him to +Heerenveen well in time for his train to Urecht. The train station at Heerenveen was completely +empty with only an idle bus hanging out in the front. Byebye Job! Good to see you again :) + +Now our car informs us that the route is over _de Polder_ aka Flevoland, but before we're allowed +onto (or, rather _into_) the polder, the highway has a sudden traffic jam -- cars are stopped +because the bridge is open! We lounge for about ten minutes and as abruptly as the traffic jam came, +it dissolved and we were back underway. Hey, if we're in Flevoland anyway, we may as well take a +look if Michael is home! I call Michael's parents and indeed, the one-year-old is home and accepting +visitors. Marina has never met Michael before, so I invite myself over for lunch, which Paul and +Henrieke are just having as I call. + +At 13:00 we rock up to the Coloclue residence where Henrieke is making _Stoofvlees_ (English: +Flemish Beef Stew). Nice work, Henrieke!! Also: nice work, WEiRD! He has sprinted to the store to +get a loaf of bread for us to consume, and he even warmed it up in the oven for us, aww!! We eat +some nice bread with sliced cheese and tuna salad, and slurp on a coffee in the kitchen where the +smell of home is being cooked up. Michael is having an afternoon nap but joins us at 13:45 or so, +and we play with him a little bit. It's fun to put plastic fruit on his head, and we exchange +tomatoes for grapes and a lemon for a good ten minutes. It's hilarious - god I wish I was a +_dreumes_ so that life was so simple and fun and plastic fruit was da bomb! + +But, we're on a mission to drive to Brussels today, and we've now broken an e-Car roadtrip rule: +you're supposed to eat while you charge. Not eat, and then still charge .. but it was totally worth +it. We have some juice left in the tank, so we drive to Hilversum where the supercharger is being an +asshole today, we want 150kW and get 34kW at best, even after changing chargers. At this rate, it's +going to take 1h50min to charge, bah. + +We forge a new plan B: continue driving to Breda and arrive there on fumes (or in an electron +cloud?) which actually goes quite well. In Breda, we are greated with 110kW of electrons running +into the battery, and this deserves a celebration: we eat a portion of _Van Dobben Bitterballen_ +(English: really delicious junk food)! It's so nice to have this enjoyment with an iced tea or coke +zero, to then meet the car in a roughly fully charged state, ready for the last leg. + +The last leg was annoying because it contained the Ring of Antwerp. Djeez, stop and go much!? After +the mildly annoying bits, though, the rest of the road to Brussels was super smooth. We arrived +there at 18:45 and parked the car right across the road from Eimear&Andrew! The carpark has an AC +charger so we give Tessa some love, and the battery will be fully charged tomorrow morning when we +want to leave. + +Andrew is an old-timer from Cisco that I know from the VPP community, and we have a tonne of fun. It +starts with drinking the gift we brought - a Spanish Rioja (Reserva), quickly followed by a second +bottle. We have fun exchanging stories until the stomach beckons, and then we walk over to [[Fin de +Siècle](https://www.findesiecle.be/)] where we have a fabulous meal with a little drop of +wine still. Marina and I are running low on sleep so we keep the nightlife to a +respectable two bars: [[Le +Cercueil](https://www.dubuisson.com/fr/ambushadeurs/lecercueil/)] where we were +the *only* people there at 23:30, maybe everybody was at Church? After that we +visited one more bar called [[Goupil Le Fol](http://www.goupillefol.com/)], +where one last Kriekske is consumed. We end up back at the appartment at 01:30 +and I'm honestly ready for a sleep. + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1329.JPG" caption="We enjoy a few bitterballen at the supercharger in Breda, well deserved" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1332.JPG" caption="The view from Andrew's pad in smack middle of Brussels" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1336.JPG" caption="@yourtch is clearly an omnivore, and devours a pork knuckle" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1339.JPG" caption="At the Cercueil we drink a few beers - it's weird because we're the only ones here (and I don't personally recall that ever happening to me before)" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-16/IMG_1342.JPG" caption="We walk back through beautiful Gallerie Royale." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-16/IMG_1343.JPG" caption="I bump into this very huggable biker bunny. Not drunk." >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} +