On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 at 02:36:46, Lau wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
>Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>> Tony Firshman wrote:
>>
>>>... and Freddie Vachha's breakfast there (four helpings) - giving us
>> the
>>
>>>spare 'rabbit food'.
>> I remember Freddy Helping a waitress or three to put out a fire on
>>an
>> egg griddler or something similar at breakfast at an Eindhoven
>> hotel...
>>
>Hey! That was me! (Freddy was too busy eating - if he was there that
>time).
He was there.
>I intervened because, in my younger days, I did the classic "pour water
>on a chip pan fire". It's a quick way of redecorating your kitchen (if
>you like black).
You did the perfect wet towel job, in a calm quiet way while the staff
were standing there flapping their arms about. You then sat down and
finished your breakfast in your usual calm slow way (8-)#
>
>I recall discovering the Eindhoven motel. We arrived in Eindhoven at
>some silly hour in the morning and eventually went into a police
>station to ask if there was anywhere we could get some breakfast.
>"Errr... you could try across the road" was the answer.
Indeed - I was there. Not quite 'across the road' but a couple of
hundred yards down the road. It is now the 'Eindhoven Hotel'
>
>Thinks - I've a few more stories to tell, but... can anyone set up a
>blogger site? As in:
>
>What exactly was Freddy doing when we came through customs and he
>nearly got everyone arrested? It involved his dual nationality - and
>shouting.
I don't remember that one.
I do remember him bounding up to me and a very nice customs lady at
Dover at the height of an IRA scare (she was inspecting all my
bomb-making equipment in my toolbox - capacitors with wires coming out,
wire, solder, fuses etc) saying "You cannot do this to people like us"
She didn't understand his sense of humour. We were a dozen blokes in a
hired van!
>
>Where is the "Cafe du nuit"? (Brussels?)
'Cap de Nuit' - in the centre of Brussels. Again we asked a policeman
where we could find somewhere to eat (at 6:15am) and he laconically
pointed across the square. Did you never go there? It was full of
student types in what looked like fancy dress drinking champagne and
eating. ... but it was only a 'Joe's caff'.
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