more than
tea and scones
Sunday, August 14, 2005
The finer things in life...
Melbatoast!! Those tiny little crackers of toast, amazing! Well, they taste terrible on their own, but add a little bit of nutella and its perfect! And for 3€ you can have your own box of melbatoast and nutella. Im always keen on cheap food. Plus, no calories (at least the melbatoast, nutella is loaded with calories).So for the past three days Ive been taking the train (All the way from Granada to Brussels). Ive been surviving off melbatoast and nutella and my jug of orange juice. Seriously, people just watch in awe as I reach into my backpack and pull out my nutella, box of melba toast, knife, cup and orange juice...yeah, Im the organised backpacker.
By the time I finally made it to Belgium I stunk...3 days in train with no shower. I am so grateful to be in a clean hostel with hot water showers. Its just a little cold in Brussels though and I traded my sweatshirt and blanket for some food and books back in Spain so I have nothing warm. I also have no clothing, I had to get rid of most of my tattered wardrobe to accomodate the giant hookah Im transporting through Europe. Im totally lacking the ability to think ahead, see, if I thought ahead, I wouldn't be carrying a giant hookah through Europe, nor would I have a bag full of tiles and I would probably have some warm clothing. BTW, the tiles are for my *Brilliant* plan of making a mosaic table out of tiles collected through Europe, I thought it would be a much more cost efficient souvenier than picking up something smal from each place. Now I have 50pounds of souveniers to haul through Europe.
Only a couple more days until my giant concert www.pukkelpop.be Jojo and I will be camping for 4 nights in some random farmers field, cheers to us!
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Location: Brussels
Wearing: these totally awesome pants I picked up in Morocco...I love them and they are clean with NO STAINS or rips....my shirt, thats another story...it still has wine stains on it from wine tasting in Portugal and some grease on it from the cardboard compactor at work...dont backpack with a white shirt
Day's Activities: Internet, chat with fellow CALGARIAN, gauze my infected oozing foot, find crepes and belgium chocolate (order these in French)
Thing you miss: SOCKS
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jenny at 1:41 PM
1 Comments
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at 5:13 PM
said... God, you arn't related to me in some way, are you? (I've learned in the last few days that I'm related to half of Norway) Right before I left Sogndal, I went to a special coffee lunch for me to meet the only other Calgarian in the area. It was so wierd talking about home with someone who actually knew where I was talking about. Very cool!