{"id":218,"date":"2008-08-25T08:23:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T07:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-08-25T08:23:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T07:23:40","slug":"it%c2%b4s-ok-we%c2%b4re-from-belguim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/it%c2%b4s-ok-we%c2%b4re-from-belguim\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u00c2\u00b4s OK we\u00c2\u00b4re from Belguim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch keyboard! Nothing is in the right place! That\u00c2\u00b4s my excuse for any typos.<\/p>\n<p>We pulled in to park at the wedding party and met up with another group parking. They said &#8220;so you\u00c2\u00b4re from Belgium!&#8221; We said from the UK and they said &#8220;so you went to Belgium and drove from there?&#8221; So Joe asked why and they pointed out we\u00c2\u00b4re driving a car from Belgium. Interesting. So the Dutch probably now think drivers from Belgium are slow and awful.<\/p>\n<p>The party was great fun with people from at least 9 countries (that\u00c2\u00b4s how many we counted after a few drinks) from all over Europe and as far away as Canada and Australia. There was a band which was great fun (lots of swing) and fabulous food. We were in a huge\u00c2\u00a0marqu\u00c3\u00a9\u00c2\u00a0tent in the middle of the countryside and the weather was beautiful though quite cold. It reminded me of Lost Vagueness at Glastonbury &#8211; elegance in a field and people dressed in everything from jeans and wellies to ballgowns and high heels. Very lovely.<\/p>\n<p>After a good night\u00c2\u00b4s sleep we had a leisurely start to the day. Had breakfast then a short walk around Staphorst before getting in the car and heading out. We drove scenic routes &#8211; all along a canel to start on a little tiny road. Then off into the forest. Stopped at a pancake house and had far too much to eat (it was lovely). Arrived at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efteling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Efteling <\/a>around 4ish and checked into the hotel. As we drove up Joe just laughed &#8211; the hotel is a fantasy castle!<\/p>\n<p>We can see the park from our window so I spent some of the afternoon watching the pagoda go up and down. Had a lovely dinner and are now just waiting to get into the park and play!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch keyboard! Nothing is in the right place! That\u00c2\u00b4s my excuse for any typos. We pulled in to park at the wedding party and met up with another group parking. They said &#8220;so you\u00c2\u00b4re from Belgium!&#8221; We said from the UK and they said &#8220;so you went to Belgium and drove from there?&#8221; So Joe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T97-3w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":223,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/efteling\/","url_meta":{"origin":218,"position":0},"title":"Efteling","date":"Monday, 25 August 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Is a nifty park! I woke up at 7 but we couldn\u00c2\u00b4t go into the park until about 9.45, so we had breakfast and a bimble and an update of the blog, then headed into the park. The nifty rollercoaster, Python, was shut. Joe looked rather relieved but I was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Frog Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":212,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/staphorst\/","url_meta":{"origin":218,"position":1},"title":"Staphorst","date":"Saturday, 23 August 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Had a very nice evening in Amsterdam. Met up at the art bar where Joe and I went for a drink and he uploaded some photos (it's the panoramio site). Had another drink then off for an Indonesian meal. 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