The Princess's plan today is to heal me using alternative therapy. First to the gym to do yoga in the hot room. This didn't particularly appeal to me as I am not a bendy fellow at the best of times. My skills at sweating also need little encouragement.
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| Even less appealing than this product |
But maybe it did make sense. Afterwards The Belgian Beer Weekend seemed even more appealing than it normally would have. We are in Golden Week now. This is a period when there are 4 public holidays within a week and the locals pull out their party hats.
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| This is fairly normal behaviour. Weird, but normal. I was surprised when she didn't actually start stripping. |
This probably explains why the Belgian Beer Weekend goes for over a week. I have been to a few beer festivals in my life; mostly they are quite chaotic affairs. This was remarkably civilised and well organised.
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| The Academy of Slimmer Living? I can't think of another country a cigarette company could get away with that... plus they are all skinny here anyway. |
A great range of beers available including several I have never tried before but wanted to (Maredsous trippel.... oh my you are lovely) one I thought Ewa would especially enjoy (Malheur 12. so dark, so sweet, so 12% alcohol!).
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| I forgot the princess is not a beer nerd and so would not immediately know that a Something 12 was going to be insanely high in alcohol but would be well disguised. |
Sadly my previous experience of Beer Festivals caused me to make an awful mistake. Usually I get all excited at the first stall and don't check all options before using all my tokens up and no longer being in a state to appreciate a beer I haven't tried.
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| High alcohol beer leads to Meat Fest! |
So when I saw that Brasserie d'Achouffe had a stall and they had the Christmas special beer N'Ice Chouffe (which I really wanted to try even though it is a winter beer) I held off and continued checking the options.
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| Japanese drinking culture is spookily civilised |
Oddly there was another stall at the end of the trek that also had Brasserie d'Achouffe beers. But not the christmas special. I went back to where I had seen my intended.
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| We saw one glass get broken. And we were given glasses, not plastic tumblers. |
It was gone and the stall claimed to be for Winterkoninkske Grand Cru
. I looked everywhere and it was not to be found. Even the place selling take home bottles didn't have it.
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| Two places had a queue. The glass rinsing station. |
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| And the Belgian chips with Mayonnaise stand. This should have been obvious as the Japanese do like mayo a lot. |
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| They were good chips and well worth waiting for |
I think I will give up on being sensible and learning from my mistakes.
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