Doei BILBO!

So last Saturday, we had our last 'regular' bookclub. The thing that will change from now on is that I will be in Switzerland, while they are still in The Netherlands. As the BILBO bookclub is kind of my baby (I founded it), I do think it's a bit sad that I can't go to every meeting any more. Physically at least. We plan to have me on skype in the future and whenever I visit The Netherlands, there will be a spontaneous book club as well.

Now, to finish this era of the book club (we exist about 2.5 years, we read classic British literature. Anyone interested?) we decided to do a High Tea at Pilkington's in Den Bosch (it's a tradition to go there. They have divine apple crumble!).


In a secret garden in the restaurant with our first course of the high tea: the sweet stuff!

We had to read The Secret Garden (lovely!) and Tom Jones (only one of us finished it in time.. *oops*), but after the high tea we watched the movie of The Monk (which we read in December 2014). To us, at least, it all made perfect sense. It was a lovely book club and I will see them soon on skype when we have read Peter Pan (*yay*) and Oliver Twist (*sigh*.. I am dreading this book).

Doei Waalwijks eten!

Anticipating my Grand Départ from Utrecht this year (yes, the Tour the France starts here as well ;) ), I decided to use this weekend to sample once again all the lovely food-that-I-am-used-to from Waalwijk, my home town. Therefore, we had takeaway from the local butcher on Saturday (they have a royal warrant of appointment, so they are really good). We had the usual: chicken wings, spare ribs, spaghetti, pasta salad, chili meat sandwich and meat balls. It was really good!



And then on Sunday, we had chips with snacks from our local snackbar (because they really cannot make chips..). We also had 'special sauce' to go with the chips, which is very Dutch indeed and consists of mayonnaise, curry and onions. Again, it is really good! The bratwurst may be a bit German/Swiss already, but the bratwurst from our local snackbar of course tastes very special!