After almost seven years in the land of chocolate and beer, and the so-called "home of the French fries" (I read it on a billboard outside Zaventem airport and will never forget it), I'm leaving to the land of kimchi. Yes, because Geneva was not far enough for weekend commuting.
South Korea is completely unknown to me, except for kimchi (obviously!), Kim Ki-duk and Psy (I'm not proud of this one). I will visit for the first time next week and write down my impressions.
Step one: the move started today and will take two days. We will send 150Kg by air and the rest in a container, by boat. Today is packing day. Pilão, our mascot, is already boxed up. Here he is, just seconds of going in the box:
We are only allowed to take a bottle of wine per person, otherwise they will make us pay 68% dutty - kind of restrictive to say the least. So we decided to take 1,5 liter bottle of Brunello de Montalcino (Banfi) 2004. I hope it will survive the sea trip and I will enjoy it with a nice vegan bulgogi.
1st damage done: one light bulb glass cover, which will be hard to replace. I find hard to imagine that they will manage to do everything in two days. They are only two!!
Dinner tonight will be in one of our favorite restaurants in Brussels - the traditional Chinese "Beijingya", close to St. Catherine. It's cheap and authentic, serving very reasonable portions. With this we start scrapping items in our bucket list. Still to do one last time:
One almost down. 9 to go!
South Korea is completely unknown to me, except for kimchi (obviously!), Kim Ki-duk and Psy (I'm not proud of this one). I will visit for the first time next week and write down my impressions.
Step one: the move started today and will take two days. We will send 150Kg by air and the rest in a container, by boat. Today is packing day. Pilão, our mascot, is already boxed up. Here he is, just seconds of going in the box:
We are only allowed to take a bottle of wine per person, otherwise they will make us pay 68% dutty - kind of restrictive to say the least. So we decided to take 1,5 liter bottle of Brunello de Montalcino (Banfi) 2004. I hope it will survive the sea trip and I will enjoy it with a nice vegan bulgogi.
1st damage done: one light bulb glass cover, which will be hard to replace. I find hard to imagine that they will manage to do everything in two days. They are only two!!
Dinner tonight will be in one of our favorite restaurants in Brussels - the traditional Chinese "Beijingya", close to St. Catherine. It's cheap and authentic, serving very reasonable portions. With this we start scrapping items in our bucket list. Still to do one last time:
- eat mussels in "Le Pré Salé",
- spice up in "Toukol" Ethiopian restaurant,
- drink mulled wine and eat empanadas in the Christmas market,
- buy chocolates for the family in St Hubert galleries,
- have breakfast in "Pain Quotidien",
- watch a movie in Actor's Studio,
- buy beer & pumpkin bread in Charli,
- go window-shopping in rue Dansaert,
- have a stroll in Parc d'Egmont.
One almost down. 9 to go!
