food

sister (in law) binky prepared a range of hot drinks for our boxing day walk (i’m a bit late with some of these pictures aren’t i ?).
she started by arranging the cups in a nice line. hot drink picnics always work best if someone has taken care of the estheticeness.
it was such a cold day that our drinks were very welcome.

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mmm. i’m enjoying my last few days of confectionary eating fun.

here are some cakes i spotted through a window when i was walking down a street in brussels.

lion fountain holding beer can.

i asked at reception if there were any good restaurant nearby the hotel i’m staying in. the receptionist said what sort, and i said “i dunno, mcdonalds or something”.
she looked me in the eyes and said accusingly “are you american ?”.
anyway, i ended up going to a nice restaurant as you can see from the food i got.
it seems it’s the custom in Belgian for late comers to restaurants to say hello to people who are already in the restaurant eating.
but it seems it’s NOT the custom to shout goodbye to people as they leave from your table.

look at this fantastic biscuit box and the lovely profitable-tolls.

this is not a chocolate cookie. it’s a very nice wheat and raisin one. but i wanted a chocolate one so i sent it back.
but then the electricity went off which resulted in: no music, no money (as it was trapped in the electronic tills), no water in the toilet (???) and no ability to cook me a proper cookie.
oh well.

at this time of year it’s quite common to see little piles of biscuits in the street such as these.

for anyone who thinks their job is boring, then just think about this poor person who’s stuck inside a sandwich all day.
there’s got to be a fantastic joke here somewhere. but for now it escapes me.
i’m sure someone out there can find a suitable sandwich based pun for us ?

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as kezia says: “drinks makes wees”