Everyday Adventures

[Duque de Bragança]

Met a couple of drunk red-faced (sunburnt? booze? both?) Welshmen in the métro. There was room around them since ordinary French people are very easily scared. The more and more the drunker Welshman talked about football with (top 3 players in Europe), the less he seemed drunk. Actually, it was a better than expected métro trip. I understood more and more of the drunken Welsh accent after a while too.

[mongers]

Met a couple of drunk red-faced (sunburnt? booze? both?) Welshmen in the métro. There was room around them since ordinary French people are very easily scared. The more and more the drunker Welshman talked about football with (top 3 players in Europe), the less he seemed drunk. Actually, it was a better than expected métro trip. I understood more and more of the drunken Welsh accent after a while too.

A mutual learning experience?

[Duque de Bragança]

Met a couple of drunk red-faced (sunburnt? booze? both?) Welshmen in the métro. There was room around them since ordinary French people are very easily scared. The more and more the drunker Welshman talked about football with (top 3 players in Europe), the less he seemed drunk. Actually, it was a better than expected métro trip. I understood more and more of the drunken Welsh accent after a while too.

A mutual learning experience?

[Duque de Bragança]

Interesting conversation in the train to an EURO 2016 game. Belgians start discussing the TOP 5 Belgians of all time, both Walloons and Flemish (more on that later). Mostly footballers (Pfaff Preud'homme etc.), given the context, plus Hergé über alles for his contribution to bande dessinée. Guess who suggested Godefroi de Bouillon AND Léon Degrelle?  Everybody took it well though. Points for the Fleming who suggested le "bon roi Léopold" of Congo/Heart of Darkness fame.

No mention of J(e)an Tserclaes, count of Tilly, or J(e)an Bart, both too linked to Bavaria and France in the later part of their career I suppose.

[Maladict]

Interesting conversation in the train to an EURO 2016 game. Belgians start discussing the TOP 5 Belgians of all time, both Walloons and Flemish (more on that later). Mostly footballers (Pfaff Preud'homme etc.), given the context, plus Hergé über alles for his contribution to bande dessinée. Guess who suggested Godefroi de Bouillon AND Léon Degrelle?  Everybody took it well though. Points for the Fleming who suggested le "bon roi Léopold" of Congo/Heart of Darkness fame.

No mention of J(e)an Tserclaes, count of Tilly, or J(e)an Bart, both too linked to Bavaria and France in the later part of their career I suppose.

No Rubens, Magritte?

No Merckx?   

[Duque de Bragança]

Well, this was more about footballers in the beginning and got hijacked for the lulz, so don't worry.   

[Duque de Bragança]

Yesterday in Lens, I thought I had finally discovered French football fans showing up  in town when their team is not playing like other teams' fans do to get a feeling of the atmosphere.
So the "French" started with the classic not-so brilliant football chant "on est chez nous" (This is our home!). No shit Sherlock!

Except the "French" were Belgians given their accents and jerseys. Claiming Lens and/or North France/Hauts-de-France/Artois whatever? 

Lots of Germans (playing the day after in Lille not far away), Britons (WE trip for cheap booze before it's too late specially for people from Dover I spoke with), Croats (of course), even some Oranje fans and a kilt-wearing Scotsman. Again, I saw the Mexican showing up at various locations throughout the Euro too. Why is he always on the move? No tickets to Copa América? Hunted down and proscripted by Valmy if he sets foot on his own turf ? 

[Duque de Bragança]

Last match day in Paris, obesity seemed to take quite a toll on German fans. Well, the men because most women were not afflicted. I guess they left them in Germany.

[The Brain]

Today I bought a winter jacket and turned out it came with a complimentary 1:18 scale Mercedes AMG GT!

[Liep]

Today I bought a winter jacket and turned out it came with a complimentary 1:18 scale Mercedes AMG GT!

Don't pretend you didn't buy it because you knew it'd come with a complimentary 1:18 scale Mercedes AMG GT.

[The Brain]

Today I bought a winter jacket and turned out it came with a complimentary 1:18 scale Mercedes AMG GT!

Don't pretend you didn't buy it because you knew it'd come with a complimentary 1:18 scale Mercedes AMG GT.

Luckily I didn't hear about the car until my second time looking at the jacket when I had already decided to buy it.

[The Brain]

Today my bathtub wasn't draining very quickly so I used a plunger.

[Tamas]

You truly lead a life of adventure and excitement.

[The Brain]

I am blessed.

[mongers]

Today my bathtub wasn't draining very quickly so I used a plunger.

Were you satisfied?