Summer in Belgium is very clearly defined. No matter what the weather does (and at the moment it's doing a very good impression of autumn), the starting and finishing dates of summer are set out for everyone.
Summer lasts from 1 July until 31 August. During these two months, the country, if not exactly shut, is a good deal less dynamic than usual. The Brussels version of Metro (the free newspaper) only comes out on two days out of five, the TV shows repeats and it takes even longer than normal to get a reply from the town hall.
And it seems that this blog has become a little bit infected by Belgian summer syndrome, for which I can only offer my apologies.
But don't think I'm already sitting back in the garden with a (Belgian) beer.
Oh no! Not at all!
On Sunday I leave for Uppsala, Sweden for a three-week intensive course, designed to get my Swedish a bit closer to the level where I can work from it.
And once I'm back, Bart and I will head off to Brittany for ten days or so.
I'll keep you posted, and try to do so rather more regularly than the last couple of weeks, ok?
Posted by Eurodan at July 14, 2004 10:02 PMOk.
Next time we brunch I'll be in better spirits, I promise, and hopefully better able to appreciate your own dilemmas.
Bon voyage -- or whatever the Swedish equivalent is. Or Flemish. Or... oh, you know...
Posted by: matt at July 15, 2004 1:06 AMThanks - it's 'trevlig resa' ;-)
As for being in better spirits - well I hope things start to look up for you soon. How did the interview go?
Posted by: Eurodan at July 16, 2004 12:37 PMAfternoon
glad your enjoying your time in Sweden, learning a few new comedic idioms. Think personally you should have a notice board of the weirder ones, translated of course, so that we can appreciate them without resorting to a phrase book.
Well it's very humid in London at the moment- so you're not missing much
xxxxxxx