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    #21
    Originally posted by Zippy View Post
    I'm sure you'll be fine though
    Maybe I should take you with me as an insurance policy.

    Fancy getting some chocolate from Brussels?

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      #22
      Originally posted by AtW View Post
      Maybe I should take you with me as an insurance policy.

      Fancy getting some chocolate from Brussels?
      That's very kind but maybe you could just bring me a bag of chips - hold the mayo. Oh, and a lager. Ta.

      Seriously - is this an exciting business trip? Conference?
      +50 Xeno Geek Points
      Come back Toolpusher, scotspine, Voodooflux. Pogle
      As for the rest of you - DILLIGAF

      Purveyor of fine quality smut since 2005

      CUK Olympic University Challenge Champions 2010/2012

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        #23
        Originally posted by Zippy View Post
        Seriously - is this an exciting business trip? Conference?
        It's a business trip but it won't be exciting for sure

        They'd better serve Stella in their pubs

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          #24
          Originally posted by AtW View Post
          It's a business trip but it won't be exciting for sure

          They'd better serve Stella in their pubs
          Their brown beers are nice but maybe also Oranjeboom (think that may be a Dutch one actually)
          +50 Xeno Geek Points
          Come back Toolpusher, scotspine, Voodooflux. Pogle
          As for the rest of you - DILLIGAF

          Purveyor of fine quality smut since 2005

          CUK Olympic University Challenge Champions 2010/2012

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            #25
            Originally posted by AtW View Post
            It's a business trip but it won't be exciting for sure

            They'd better serve Stella in their pubs
            Asking for stella is probably like asking for Fosters in Australia.

            Try something you can't buy in tescos, and preferably something served in a strange glass.
            ...like this:

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              #26
              Originally posted by Zippy View Post
              Eurostar is great and you are only in that opressive, crushing death trap under the channel for 20 mins.
              Yeah, right. I took my kids to Eurodisney a while back. On the way back the train stopped in the middle of the tunnel. And I mean stopped, stopped. For about an hour and an half. The dependable Euro staff came on the tannoy to advise that we were stuck because the train in front had broken down, blocking the exit. And they helpfully added that to conserve power they would be switching the lights off.

              I think someone might have reminded them that this train from Eurodisney was full of young kids who would probably not take too well to having the lights switched off, because the lights stayed on. Meanwhile my young son was absolutely convinced that another train was going to take us in the rear, and that we were goners. It was just a very unpleasant experience. It might have been sensible if they had moved us into the emergency tunnel - but they didn't.

              We arrived back at Waterloo in time to catch the last train out of London, on the very same evening that England had just won a major footie match - so the place was brimming with footie supporters who had had a bit too much to drink. It wasn't a very pleasant journey, and we were very glad when we finally got home.

              So all the stories recently about the Eurotrain not breaking down in the tunnel were kack. If we couldn't go forward they could have pulled us back to France - they didn't. We were stuck right in the middle of the tunnel.

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                #27
                Originally posted by ItsQuickerAntiClockwise View Post
                I never had you down for a wimp.........
                Not been here long have you?

                “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post
                  Asking for stella is probably like asking for Fosters in Australia.

                  Try something you can't buy in tescos, and preferably something served in a strange glass.
                  ...like this:

                  Mmmmmmmmm my favourite Belgian Beer.
                  Two of those and AtW will need the Air Ambulance to get him home!!

                  “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

                    or maybe North West Frontier (1959)
                    (good film actually, once the journey starts)
                    & quelle suprise... the baddie is a muslim
                    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by Troll View Post
                      & quelle suprise... the baddie is a muslim
                      What about the Crusades, who were the baddies back then?

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