Loving my Summer holidays 2011
Looking forward to 4 weeks of summer vacation. Started good, having chosen for the first time to fly Finnair to Brussels, which incidentally just started daily flights from SIN-HELSINKI two months ago. I'm satisfied with the flight: good food, pleasant service and the best part must be the small and uncrowded airport to make quick transfers, painlessly. Landed on a chilly morning in Brussels and we drove to Gent to pick up our Volvo garage. These people at Volvo are so sweet, putting at our disposal a car at very reasonable rates. We arrived exactly 13 hours point to point at Niewpoort, which in the past took about 16hours when we came via CDG Paris with Air France. You can smell the iodium rich crisp air.. aah perfect. We dined on scrumptious north sea shrimp tomato salad with lotsa freshly cut fries. After we unpacked and stopped by the grocers to pick up the essentials. Five days of lazy living punctuated with me getting up early to fetch fresh croissants and danish. I just can