Belgium 2010 - Cold but Brilliant...

The ferry from Hull to Zeebrugge, Belgium is a splendid invention.
You can get an overnight crossing including a delicious (all you can eat style) dinner followed (the next morning) by an even more delicious full English Breakfast. Yum.  Strongly recommend doing it.  Top notch...

Well off we were going - to Belgium for the annual SHS band trip.  
This one time...at band camp - is fitting.

Travelling with 50 (ish) utterly wild and uncontrollable teenage girls  

Lego Lucy = Scared! :)

Much fun was had by all on the crossing over, after a hearty meal we played some bingo and drank some (medicinal) Gin & Tonic.

A near win...

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I'm on a boat!

On board entertainment, provided by Lego Lucy 

& Friends.

The Blazin Squad

Upon arrival in Belgium - A nice group walk by the sea-front.  It was very cold indeed.  

By the Sea

Drink of the week goes to Kriek - It is delicious.  You must drink this when in Belgium, Cherry beer.  Amazing.

Getting Stuck in to the Kriek

Enjoying a sit down in a bar in Brussels. 

Black Tea and chocolate cigs.

Exploring

The absolute find of the week was a sweet shop in Brugge called the Candy Shop.  Lego Lucy's Heaven would probably look similar.  I have visited many sweet shops.  I am an expert sweet eater and this particular shop was just extraordinary.  It was absolutely necessary to purchase a massive sack of sweets so that I could sample everything on offer.  At this point I was perfectly happy to spend the best part of 10 Euros on sweets.  (Can When in Rome apply here?  Yeh.)

GO HERE!

Best Ever Pick & Mix 

 So Brugge was the place to be for sweetshop experts (such as myself.) 

LL's Heaven

Anyway...Brugge really is a lovely place and only a 20 minute bus journey from the ferry port at Zeebrugge.  There are some great little bars and obviously - the best sweet shop in the world. 

Hangin out in Brugge

A strange signpost

So after a week in Belgium (and a day in Lille, France) It was time to get the overnight ferry back to Hull.  

On the ferry...I think they are imagining what it would be like to have their own Lego Lucy's

Bye bye!

Awesome week in Belgium.  Must go back.  Soon.  I need to! To get another pick & mix.

Quick trip to Hull, filming for BBC's Symphony for Yorkshire...

Monday morning mission to Hull for the BBC's Symphony for Yorkshire project, 

'A Symphony For Yorkshire has involved the making of a short musical film by musicians from around the county following open auditions ...The full-length version of the Symphony (composed by Benjamin Till) will be played on BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC Radio York and BBC Radio Humberside on Yorkshire Day, August 1. The film will be broadcast on BBC Look North on Monday, August 2...'
 

Representing for Yorkshire YEAH...

Anyway, had a pleasant train journey, quick look around Hull, then on to a bus to get to a bridge in Hull...

Eventually found the right bridge.

 

The BBC crew then arrived and set up mega quick...

















They had lots to do, tonnes of musicians all to be filmed across the county over the next week...

 Time for the strings to rock out. 

Mister Till doing some directing...

 It looked pretty awesome....

The strings packed up and it was time for trumpet, a few takes later and it was time to go home.

As a side note, on the train home I noticed that this drink...

contains 66% of an adult's daily recommended allowance of sugar...
in ONE bottle!  Imagine what would happen to LegoLucy if she necked a bottle of that stuff...she'd be bouncing off the walls...not in a good way.

That is all.