BELGO CENTRAAL

The rest of the week carried on uneventfully. The new helpdesk system worked out OK and was actually quite enjoyable. It was interesting being on the front lines and the backup system behaved itself for once.

Thursday was the badminton meal after work, which was pretty good. It was in the Boderw which has supposedly been closing for the last few years but this year the food was even better.
Friday was work as usual and then Em and I piled into my car with Vicky to head down to Kent to stay with Jane and Wes for the Belgo meal on Saturday. Rob couldn't get the day off so we had to leave in the evening. We set off at about 5pm from Wrexham and got to Kent for not long after 10pm. The journey wasn't too bad, only delayed briefly on the A5 where there appeared to be a many car pile being cleared up and some roadworks on the M1. We were kept entertained by discussions of Jelly Baby ethicity, two gay Ford Transits that were chasing each other down the M1 and Vicky's disastorous raspberry Ribena which was disgusting and was quickly dubbed arseberry.

Saturday was spent chilling out and resting. We tried to watch a film called The Dilemma which was horrifically bad. We managed about 30 minutes of before giving up and putting it onto fast forward which was much more entertaining as we provided our own commentary. After that it was time to get dressed up and get the astonishing 140mph train into St Pancras.

Belgos was awesome as always but it was very busy and noisy. It's fascinating watching the waiters and staff hurtling around managing it all as it's complete bedlam most of the time. The food was amazing as always and the beer drinkers of the party partook of the amazing beer. I did try a couple of them and a cherry one which was initially nice but became too beer like for my taste. Teh first course I had was the assorted meat platter which was beautiful. The main course was steak and lobster which I agonised about for a while but since I had never had lobster before, my reasoning was that if I was going to try it then I should try it where it would be good. The steak was awesome and the lobster was...interesting. Bits of it were really nice and some bits tasted like the sea. Also being confronted with a whole half lobster was a bit of a culture shock. But I'm glad I tried it. Pudding was the mandatory waffle, which was ace.

After that we made it back to the last high speed train and got back without any issues.
Today everyone got up with very little problems and we went out and got KFC for lunch which hit the spot perfectly and got everyone settled. The rest of the day is going to consist of chilling, DVDs and hopefully a Chinese in the evening. Superb.