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I watched ‘In The Name of The Father’ last night which I thought was excellent but was dissapointed when I done a fair bit of reading afterwards and discovered that half of it was fabricated. This spoiled it somewhat for me as some subjects are too important to have daft amounts of Hollywood poetic-linense applied to them.

Antwerp was supposed to be on the agenda today but I couldn’t be bothered so went for a walk round Brussels instead. I’ll do ‘twerp tomorrow.

One place I visited while on walk about was The Belgian Comic Stip Centre which I found to be rubbish, at least for non Flemish or French speakers. It’s not like I’m into comics but they do have certain charms, I used to read Judge Dread as a kid and I still love Tin Tin, so I thought I’d see what the place was like and kill some time. Unfortunately I’d say 95% of the exhibts and exhibit information are not in English, they do give you a little A4 folder with some stuff in English but it’s only a fraction.

I met Pekka in the Grand Place when he had finished work and we went for a couple of beers in the Che Habana Cafe I had spotted earlier. It was actually pretty good, I thought it might be a cheap souless cash-in but it had an authentic Cuban feel to it. We tried a Kriek cherry beer (Belgian) and then a Cubaner (Cuban beer funnily enough).

After that we went to get some scran from one of the countless restaurants in the area. Traditional Belgian mussels and fries were what we had in mind.

We sat down at one gaff but decided to try else where as the prices were considerably heftier than most other places we had past, this is where events took a turn for a worse. Both the table and the seats were wobbly and as Pekka rose from his chair the table was nudged and my wine glass and a fair bit of cuttlery went flying loudly enough to cause a stir from the guests at our restaraunt and also several others in close proximity, what was worse was that my wine glass had not smashed but half landed in a titled position on my wrist so that in the half second I had to remedy the situation my life flashed before my eyes and I turned my hand and grasped at the base of the glass but it was not to be, crash and more jeers from people of many nations. Of course the made it all the more embarassing to leave so we sat down and literally stomached the inflated costs. We are one slick pair of muddas.

PS Lame post title again but we’ve been through this people.