London Calling

2 Aussies, 2 Americans and a Brit drive to Belgium...

This actually occurred. First let me respond to some loyal readers out there, I am now in week 3 of work. It's a good group of people and the work is pretty consistent to what I was doing oh so well in the states so all in all a very good start to that side of things. Writing about work though isn't what keeps blog readership going though, and I wouldn't really want to put in salacious material about work...people get fired for that.

So this weekend, I did not hang out with Rob and Anne. Instead I took a road trip to Brugges, Belgium with Pat, a friend from the US, his buddy Jon and two Aussies, Michael and Richard. It's very easy to forget that getting to different countries in Europe is a lot like traveling between states in the US. We made it to Belgium in about 3 hours or so.

Our intent was to attend a beer festival, unfortunately this was occurring 50km south of Brugges, so we decided to make our own beer festival in Brugges. We had a lovely dinner of mussels and Belgian beer, followed by a lot more Belgian beer and some Belgian nightclubs. Along the course of the evening we added 2 more Aussies to our entourage. The town is gorgeous with impressive architecture meeting you at every turn of the small winding streets that would suddenly open onto large squares dotted with restaurants along the edges.

The only downer was at some point Richard decided to go for a walk alone after several drinks, he ended up getting his wallet stolen and a real nice bump on his forehead.

We decided to title the trip "5 minutes from utter disaster" for reasons that shall remain in the confidence of the 5 (7) people who took Brugges by storm.

posted by Brian and Kirsten Hennigan @ Monday, October 16, 2006