Posted in June 30th, 2008
Hans left first from the festival as he had to get down to Charleroi for a flight to Dublin, and wanted to stop in Brussels on his way there. It was great to see him again after so long. I think we should set a rule that we never meet in the same country again! [...]
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Posted in June 29th, 2008
The final day. We rose at a reasonable time and realised we were all out of beer. Hans walked off to see early bands while we kept on going on into down to find out that the small supermarket was closed on a Sunday. Argh. Fortunately, there’s another supermarket around a corner which we hadn’t [...]
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Posted in June 28th, 2008
Today was more of a festival day. The sleep overnight wasn’t too bed all things considering – like the number of us in a tent and the lack of mattresses or padding of any sort. The earth underneath kind of fit round the way I sleep so it wasn’t as bad as it could have [...]
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Posted in June 28th, 2008
Currently in a tent provided by Belgacom at the Graspop festival in Belgium. Bad typing is due to French keyboard and 10 minute time limit! Mixed weather, great band and only a few panics… More next week when I’m back in the UK!
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Posted in June 27th, 2008
We’d arranged to meet Marina outside the festival campsite around 11:30, so we had plenty of time to grab some food and get packed. The train station is only a short walk up the road from the hostel and within 20 minutes we were sat on a train (filled with long-haired people in black clothes) [...]
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Posted in June 26th, 2008
I woke at a reasonable hour and made sure I was all packed up. I had time to do a quick email check and get breakfast before I had to walk over the road to the hauptbahnhof for my coach to Brussels. Hans was already there doing the tourist thing and we’d agreed to meet [...]
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Posted in September 10th, 2007
I worked out that this is my fifth visit to Belgium, making it my most-visited country in the world outside of the UK. This, however, was my first trip entirely on foot and also my first to the north-eastern part of the country. The first couple of days didn’t really show me much change from [...]
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Posted in June 25th, 2007
A huge thank you to Belgium for another great long weekend. Still the friendliest Europeans in my experience, with one of the cleanest and most efficient rail networks. No surprise given that they laid Europe’s first in 1830. Thanks also to Sheilah for the pedometer, and Anni for mailing it on to Marina for her [...]
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Posted in June 25th, 2007
A short post I may expand on later just to get things up to date. Slayer owned Download and I’m still bruised with a very, very sore right thumb from the ‘pit. Ozzy Osbourne is like your grandad on stage. Almost embarassing to see, but you can’t help but love him and hope he’s there [...]
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Posted in June 24th, 2007
Yes, I know this post is late and I’ve already put some of the details on the other posts, but it’s here and it’s staying so there. Today was a busy day bandwise with a lot of performances to see. We popped in briefly to see Chimaira before running into town to grab a sandwich [...]
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