… for the next day or two, and so what i’ll be doing is to try to catch up with my sleep. At just 200m from the University and with a tram line just around the corner it’s really noisy here and last night, with the neighbours arguing until 03:00 there was no chance of any real sleep, especially as the trams start up at 06:00.<\/p>\n
I solved the baguette problem by the way. There’s a mini-Carrefour supermarket just a few hundred metres away and they have baguettes at 95 cents. Only twice as much as in a Carrefour in France but it’s a step in the right direction. I did my week’s shopping in there too, and regular readers will recall that in France, that comes to round about \u20ac20:00. Here (admittedly with a light bulb included) it came to \u20ac38 and something. Highlight has to be the tomatoes, 99 cents per kilo in the Auchan, that cost \u20ac2:59 for 800 grams here. No wonder I left the country when I retired.<\/p>\n
Most of the time I’ve spent here, I’ve been doing odd jobs around the apartment but I managed to get out and about. Primarily to go to the bank to arrange a transfer or some money to France. However of course, as you might expect, the bank chose today of all days to be closed for repainting and decorating. Nevertheless I did manage to visit a few other shops for a few other things, including a tack of my 12-volt LED warning lights.<\/p>\n
On the way back here I stopped off at the Palace to see how the King was getting on, and I noticed a group of Japanese tourists talking to everyone else in the crowd. My curiosity having been aroused, I sneaked up behind then and listened to what they had to say. It was really quite illuminating –\u00a0 a question of “who’s that up there on the balcony of the Palace – you know – the guy standing next to Eric Hall?”<\/p>\n
So this evening I’m on my own with Strawberry Moose<\/a>. We’ve had a pizza and we’ve watched the footy and now I’m having an early night while he’s off to the Bois de la Cambre to look for a few ladyfriends<\/p>\n
