I have a really nasty little virus at the moment - that's the main reason why I haven't been in touch lately (in case anybody missed me LOL)...
Do you know this feeling, when you're actually glad that you're sick, because you finally have the time to call someone, to read a book, to watch a movie...
My last couple of weeks have been so strenuous that I highly welcome this nasty little virus although it includes head aches, coughing, sneezing, and a fricking sore throat (drinking water burns like Hell...I wonder what a Thai Curry would feel like :)
BTW...movies...I've finally been able to see In Bruges...and I really liked it...plus Bruges is THE perfect backdrop for any likeably quirky "low-budget" movie - European style (as opposed to *Eurotrash* LOL).
When I'm back in shape, I'll post some pics that I took in Bruges a couple of years ago.
It's a truly lovely place, yet, at the same time it doesn't feel like a *real* place, like a place that continues to exist once the hordes of tourists leave the magnificent scenery...I never stayed in Bruges longer than a day; that's probably why it felt like they were going to close shop once we had left the area...
Bruges already felt like a movie set before anybody used it as a movie set - the cobble stone streets, the canals, the medieval churches and mansions and us collectively playing the part of the tourists - duefully standing in line for a boat trip through the canals or for a cup of hot Belgian chocolate for that matter.
I still can't quite imagine that *real* people live in this place...that they live, work and sleep in these medieval stone houses...
There's a shopping high street in Bruges, and honestly, that was the ONLY place that hinted at the fact that Bruges was *real* place, with *real* people...