Okay, I am officially hooked on fresh french and sourdough bed. In fact, it’s so good it reminds me of home (S.F.). I had dinner at a place called DePost the other night and it was SO good. They took a simple salad, added fresh sliced apples, kiwi and strawberries, some baked cinnamon apples, HUGE shrimp, and all kinds of veggies and put a light ginger viniagrette on it. I was in straight up heaven! But the portion was so big I had to take it back to the hotel with me. The next night (tonight, in fact) I went to a place called Flora for dinner. I walked in and asked if they could fix me a dish for ‘take away’ (they don’t call it take out). They said no problem. But when the guy gave me a menu, I asked for some help because the menu was all in Dutch. He just kept saying, in perfect English, well just look up at the menu on the board.
I kept repeating that I couldn’t read the board. But that was his answer to everything. “Hey, what do you have for around 12 euro?” Look at the board. “What do you have with meat in it?” Look at the board.
Sigh. Finally I ordered a pasta and shrimp cream dish. And they packed it in a huge porcelain bowl and asked me to please bring the bowl back because they were out of aluminum take away containers. Heck, I’d had no intention of ever going back there again, so you can imagine I was totally not happy being asked to be nice and bring their bowl back. But I did. I’m such a nice person *grin*
Then I started fighting a cold, compliments of a woman sneezing all over the plane without covering her mouth.
What’s cool is that I have this really neat cab driver named Freddie. He’s a short white haired guy with a wicked sense of humor and the sweetest disposition ever. He picks me up every morning and takes me to the customer site, then comes back and gets me. He’s also good friends with the ladies who run the hotel I was staying at.
If you’re ever in Geel, Belgium, stay at the Hotel Verlooy. The service was absolutely exquisite. And believe it or not, the beds were heaven!
When I left my customer this evening, they were very happy with the training they’d received and I was enjoying the little town of Geel. Tomorrow I’ll be on a train to Amsterdam so I can fly to Dublin to meet my kids. Really looking forward to it!
See ya’ll later ;D
TJ