Empress Nemo and the Neverending Search for Stuff: Sheep tricks

Storms in Ostend

Why choose Ostend as your next storm-experience-location?

* Ostend is just a 80 min. train ride from Brussels, 40 min. from Ghent, or 90 min. from Antwerp.

* From the station, it's not even a 10 min. walk to reach the sea.

* The beach at the beginning of the coastal promenade isn't very broad, which means that if the tide is right during your chosen storm, the waves break directly on the stone foundation of the promenade, causing a spray that will give you wet feet (at the very least, see picture above) and lots of marvellous sound-effects.

* The coffee-machine in the entrance hall of the station serves first-rate hot coffee to warm you up before the return journey.

dinsdag 6 november 2007

Sheep tricks

Barnyard animals are not to be trusted. I've got a sheep in my head. It's making gruesome quantities of bleating noises. It is parked right where the left hemisphere of my brain normally lurks. Its little hooves are trampling my thoughts and memories. It got in there by squeezing trough my left ear. It is quite a fluffy specimen. If I look up my nose with my make-up-mirror, I can see some white woolly curly fluff.

In other words: someone nicked my disertation-proposal, Musharraf nicked my project, my ear hurts, my head hurts, my head feels fluffy as hell. Not all bad however: Someone just presented me with a rubber duck. I had a good time yesterdaynight.