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24 Hours of Beer Festival
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Today Newsletter, 6th Edition.
24
Hours of Beer Festival: Sat/Sun Nov. 3/4 -- details
at http://www.24-uur.be/en/index.htm
82 days to First Sip!
NOTE
Okay, here's some more scary stuff... I've dug up a
few revealing pix from Belgium Tour 2000. Check the
left-hand nav bar for gruesome details!
The
countdown of Days Until First Sip is now being run by
computer (on Mountain Standard Time) so it should be
more accurate than, say, me.
TIP
O' THE WEEK
Comes from Dan Rowley:
Photos are great, but KEEPING A JOURNAL will help you
remember the trip even better. I'm not talking about
"Dear Diary" stuff here. Keeping a running log of things
you've seen and done, your impressions, and other memory-joggers
is not only a great way to help you remember the trip
when you're old and back in diapers, and it's a dandy
way to while away the hours at quaint European street
cafés. Seeing as how we're going to a BEER FESTIVAL
and then likely AMSTERDAM, we'll need all the memory
aids we can get.
Simple
stationary notebooks are best (bound better than spiral).
That and a pen is all you need to get started. I keep
my notes in a patent-pending shorthand of one-liner,
part game-show-question-category-title — think "Win
Ben Stein's Money"-type responses.
Two
years after last venturing across the Pond (Atlantic)
I can reconstruct huge swathes of forgotten events just
by reading a few short lines (from our night in Wien
at the Opera):
Threepenny (actually, $2.25) opera
"BackPacker
Dress" - "it's cool, cords will be fine!"
The cattle queue - find your trough and tie a sweater
to it
Tastefully hidden D/H toilettes
Stupid American Tourists do the Opera
Brats and Frankenfurters all around, mind the crockery!
Stay on the LARGE stones - that is NOT grout.
nightcap and dessert over deep musicology.
See
http://bilfish.com/life_project/Euro99/
and http://newts.com/dan/euro99_1.html
and for results of said notes.
More
notes: *** Remember to ensure your passport is A) Locatable
around the house and B) not going to expire! I just
got mine (applied at the Post Office) and it cost $60
for a new one, and it took under 2 weeks.
BELGIUM
- WERD UP
Something we've been remiss in discussing, and shame
on us, is the Beer!
Sure,
we know how much the beers will cost (see newsletter
#1) but so what? Tell us more ABOUT THE BEER! Here,
with his first tasting report for us, is BrewMaster
Jaser:
My
best description of some particularly strong belgian
ales (such as Rocheforte Triple) is—
First sip - hmm, I don't really care for this one
Second sip - well, it does grow on you
3rd glug - ahhh pure nectar
4th glug - none left - tears form in eyes
I
think that says it all, really. John's eloquence captures
the essence of the beer festival. The wonderfully bulb-shaped
glasses help to NOT capture said tears, as comingling
is discouraged.
ATTENDEE
(Commitment) / LENGTH OF STAY (LOS) / SNORE QUOTIENT
In
detail on the Who's
Going Page!
Tote
Board:
7 Men of Impeccable Honor -- Definitely going to Belgium
3 Men of Indiscriminate Discipline -- Maybe going to
Belgium
2 Men of Yellow Hair -- Too yeller-bellied to tell us
whether they're going
New
Member Focus: Joining the Belgium Tour Team 2001!
Erich Beckmannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn! Part of Team 2001, he
sadly just missed the deadline for Team 2000 and is
planning on making up for it in spades. Hailing from
our smallest state (I think) of Rhode Island, Erich
now summers and winters in Connecticut. And his name
is NOT a four-letter word, damn it.
Introducing
Steve Urban. Two of Three joined us last year on this
very same trip. We called him a stud, he said he still
wasn't buying us a pint. Damn him. This year he may
make up for it with some planned guided brewery tours
in the South and/or East of Belgium.
REMEMBER
Do the Dew
Cheers,
BilFish
Editor, Belgium Today!
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