Another week, another couple of days off. The thing about being a freelance interpreter is that you often end up with two-day or three-day weeks. And given the peculiarities of the Commission's recruitment system, you can then be recruited at *very* short notice for a meeting the next day, so it pays to hang around in Brussels rather than hopping on a train somewhere.
Although sometimes the temptation to escape gets just too much. Especially when you can be in any number of delightful European cities in less than three hours on a posh high speed train.
Today I'm resisting. But tomorrow, who knows?
By the way, you may remember some months ago I posted a picture of the delightful Flemish newsreader Wim De Vilder. Well it seems that the long-dead Dutch language blog archive has become a bit of a forum for Wim fans. Good for them. Should I charge them rent?
Posted by Eurodan at June 28, 2004 10:31 AMif you're bored, feel free to pop out to the shops for me. i'm all out of food.
Posted by: matt at June 28, 2004 12:49 PMYes, you shoud charge them in order to buy some food for Matt. By the way, there was an interview with Wim De Vilder in Humo.
Posted by: Axel at June 28, 2004 2:09 PMYou should at least get them to do something for you. Maybe arrange dinner with said newsreader :-)
Hopefully, things here will soon be in a state where I can suggest that you hop on a train or plane to Alicante in one of your bored moments. I guess Spetember or October would probably suit you climate wise. If it's a good year, even November might be comfortable up here.
Posted by: Shyboy at June 28, 2004 2:26 PMMatt, I'd be only too happy to pop out to the shops for some food for you, but I fear the refrigerated items might go off before the Eurostar pulled into London.
Axel: Is that a recent Humo or some time ago? His 'coming-out' interview is one I'd quite like to read...
Shyboy: Thanks very much for the invitation - I'd love to take you up on that this autumn!
Posted by: Eurodan at June 28, 2004 3:50 PM