Back at work and not very pleased about it. In the last two weeks I've been to Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Bahamas, England, France, Germany, Belgium, and Holland. By the time I made it to Frankfurt the time zones and different languages had my brain all in a tizzy. I kept using French when I was supposed to be using German, and sometimes I'd forget which country I was in or had just been in - it was fantastic! The Dave & Tim European Tour was the best tour I've ever done with Dave Matthews; not only did I get to chill in some amazing cities and meet lots of people from all over the planet, but I also got to meet Dave twice and Tim once, and I also got to stand at the front of the stage in front of Dave for both the Brussels and Amsterdam shows! I've never been that close to the music and doubt I ever will again - bliss is what it was.Besides the shows, arriving in a new city & country every day was a wonderful challenge. I managed to see tons of locales at each city and do a little food tour for traditional local eats in each place too: crepes and take out sandwiches in Paris, crazy sausage in Frankfurt, fries and waffles in Brussels, and Bitteballs (don't know how to spell it) and this other kind of crazy hot dog/sausage with filling in Amsterdam.
I'll be posting more about the trip in little bits, but now, I must get back to work. I need to focus because my flight was delayed three hours in London last night (and I had already been at the Amsterdam airport for many hours before getting to London) and when I finally made it back to Vancouver I realized the clocks went ahead one hour. So I'm still very much in a haze of different time zones and languages - oh, and I need a new hard drive before I can even upload my pictures because that is how full my GBs are! Pictures and stories soon!
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it's spelled 'bitterballen' and the other thing is called a 'frikandel'.
hi spage! it was great to meet you - sorry to hear it took you so long to get home! hope your back was doing okay after the night on my sister's floor...
Hi Esther!!
Thank you so much for the info on the Dutch food - it was killing me that I didn't know what the hot dog thing was!
As far as my back - if it had been sore, it would have only served as another wonderful reminder as to how grateful I am to you and your sister for putting me up at the last minute.
And lastly, I do hope you come back and see this, because I was hoping to send you an e-mail (which would mean you'd need to send me one first!). It's kind of a round about thing though, what I was hoping, was to get in touch with your brother's roommate. I'd like to keep in touch with him if possible!
It was wonderful to meeting you, and I hope our paths cross again many times.
All the best,
Spage
sure, send me an e-mail at maretempi@yahoo.com, and i'll forward your address to my brother, who will then forward it to his friend (are we still following this? ;))
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