Well, I’m back from my Belgian Beach Holiday™. It was a little too chilly to go swimming. But the sun came out and there was always a beer and waffle close to hand. Which is all that matters I guess.
My journey to Belgium left me pondering one thing though. Where are all the fat Belgians? You can’t walk a high street in the UK without having to step off the footpath to let a supersized family or two past. But the fattest person I saw in Belgium was Grandfather Plop in Plopsaland. And he was just someone dressed up in TV cartoon character outfit.
You’ve got to admit, the Belgian diet is not exactly conducive to maintaining a svelte figure. The staples are chocolate, waffles and frites, all washed down with a beer or two. The consensus here in the office is that all the morbidly obese Belgians are stuck in their houses, too big to get out.
But I digress. I’m here today to talk to you about myWanderlust and the goings on over the Easter Break. Roseattack eschewed the Spring cleaning to post a fistful of tales on Experiences. There’s a Day Out in Perth. Catching up with old travelling buds in Bath. Shuttling between Vienna and Bratislava and an account of her first shot at driving abroad in the Czech Republic.
Rhoda1 finally brings us part three of her Barefoot in Burma series, taking us on a dusty tour of the temples of Bagan. Hmoat1 goes on a trip down memory lane on an open-top bus tour of Belfast. And JayR delights (as usual) with a fantastically written piece about bamboo rafting on the Mekong.
JohnnyLawlor, meanwhile, illustrates just how interconnected and immediate the world is these days with a quick report from Thailand where he joined locals, halfway up a cliff, waiting for a tsunami that never came.
Hmoat01 is just back from Istanbul where she ate grilled fish sandwhiches by the Bosphorous and listened to the call to prayer. She says that a polite but firm ‘no!’ is the best way to avoid buying your tenth carpet.
Oldschoolmitchie is back from the Gambia. The people are amazing. The airport is a bit dodgy. And watch out for the bumsters. Seraphically went shopping in Bangkok with her parents (not a good idea, apparently). Rohan Prakash went trekking in Sumatra and says just go with the flow. And Fiona Trowbridge is back from Paris and heartily recommends sneaking a peek behind the big wooden doors in the Marais district.
The forum this week is choc-a-block with requests for help – and not all of them are from Belgians trapped in their flats. Kathryn has two days in Tobago and wants to go bird watching. Scheungy is taking teenagers east of Krakow. And Shoreham-Boy is driving to south-west France with his mates. They want advice. Please give freely.
Elsewhere, travelinmybones is off to Hawaii, austinpowers has lined up ten days in Fiji and Falcon is due to hit Khao Sok National Park in Thailand any day now. They all need your help too.
Not so many new photos over at the galleries this week, but while quantity is lacking the quality is certainly not. I love Rhoda1’s pic of the truck carting hay in Bangladesh. Imagine a clown with a blonde afro and you get a pretty good idea of what it looks like. Charles Kinsey gives us a taste of wild New Zealand. Ocelus posts a picture of a waterfall for Bilbo Baggins. And Bilbo reciprocates with a selection of shots from the Great Ocean Road.
Listen to me waffling on (did you see what I did there?), I've got a Leffe chilling in the fridge and a kilo of Belgium's finest to get through.
I expect I'll be three pounds lighter by Monday.
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