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<\/a>But before we start, let me show you a photo of my room at the Papillon d’Or from last night and this morning. It’s a lovely room and a lovely place, and the breakfast was really nice too.<\/p>\nBut the landlady clearly has a finely-developed sense of humour. There are two mattresses on the bed of course, and one (the one upon which I was sleeping) was thicker than the other. <\/p>\n
And so in the middle of the night I rolled onto the other one, but it wasn’t where I expected and so I awoke in a panic, thinking that I was falling out of bed.
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So by 06:00 I was wide awake and went for a shower as early as possible. <\/p>\n
I had a slow recovery and by 09:30 I was on the road. And by 10:00 I was waiting in the queue at the IKEA on the border between Belgium and Luxembourg. It’s sale day today, there’s free coffee, and a \u20ac15:00 gift voucher for anyone spending more than \u20ac100 in the store. I need all kinds of new stuff for my new kitchen, wherever that might be, and so with some judicious purchases, I came out with \u20ac101:35 of new utensils, saucepans and the like.<\/p>\n
But the most surprising thing of all this that I bought cost me \u20ac39:00 and I’ll post a photo of it in due course. Let’s just say that it will revolutionise my hotel-camping.<\/p>\n
It says, with absolutely no trace of irony “no spring-cleaning without a cup of tea”. However, as we all know, putting me with something light-coloured like this is a recipe for disaster. <\/p>\n The sign really ought to read “no cup of tea without spring-cleaning”. That’s much more like it where I am concerned. It looks like a fire to me, with all of that smoke.<\/p>\n And you’ll notice the weather. It’s foul out there with the rain pouring down like nobody’s business. I had lunch and then I hit the road. Straight into a traffic queue that lasted for 7 kms. I despaired of this and took a detour out of the traffic, and that was when I picked up a sign for “Verdun”.<\/p>\n It’s a nice cheap hotel, the Hotel du Tigre (named after Georges Clemenceau, the French politician) and I’ve just had one of the best pizzas that I have ever eaten. And tomorrow I shall be off to visit the battlefields of Verdun. I’ve never been here before.<\/p>\n And Caliburn and Strawberry Moose<\/a> have been able to cross off “Luxembourg” of their list of countries to visit. <\/p>\n Another milestone achieved for them.<\/p>\n<\/a>But the prize for one of the silliest signs ever must surely go to this one here. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>I had a glance out of the fire escape window while I was wandering around. Over there is the border between Luxembourg and Belgium and there seems to be some kind of “incident” going on out there.<\/p>\n
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