Chocolate is Sport

Part of my job involves travelling to Brussels to meet my Belgian paymasters. My boss' boss ("Capo di capo"?) is a Dutch guy who lives and works in Brussels. Belgium is known for three things:

Leonardo da Vinci ("O Draconian Devil!")
Tin Tin and Snowy*
Chocolates / Pralines

As one of my Belgian colleagues told me:
"In England your national sport is football. In Belgian it is chocolate."

So each trip to Brussels now means:

A waffle
A few pints of Hoegaarden
A 500g box of Belgian's finest choccies as a pressie for Vic

Unfortunately THE BEST Belgian chocs are made by neuhaus -- they are worth their weight in gold -- and consist of loads of butter and cream covered in top-notch choccy.

Vic is dairy intolerent remember.

What a shame....

[Snort, snort, oink, oink, sound of troughing]



* Hard-backed French language Tin Tin books retail at 8 euros. Soft-backed English language Tin Tin books -- in the same shop -- retail at 11 euros! Inferior product, higher price. Further proof that the rest of the EU hate us English: The translation and lower-print run cost argument doesn't add up either. Can you imagine the uproar in Brussels if French-language DVDs cost more than English-language DVDs?!!