Thursday, 11th March 2010

There’s snow (luggage)

Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Life

I’ll be putting up last Sunday’s article as soon as I can. It’s been a hectic two days with the parents thanks to the sheets upon sheets of snow that landed on Luxembourg and the rest of Europe. Their arrival kept slipping down the schedule as the weather wreaked havoc  around the continent. They were [...]

Bruxelles-la-moche (again)

Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Life, Noticeboard

Jack the chaperone leaves for BXL this afternoon and will stay there till tomorrow night. I’m essentially chaperoning the missus as she sits for the last of her fonctionnaire exams (fingers crossed) so I won’t have much to do in the city I love to hate. Which explains this post. Anybody out in BXL willing [...]

Toussaints

Posted on 01. Nov, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Kinnie & Twistees, Life, Noticeboard

Ghadni Kent, midfun f’nofs il-kampanja hlejja. Ironikament is-sistema tat-telefon qajla twassal dawn in-nahat pero b’xorti tajba hawn il-wireless ta’ dar vicin li tippermetti xi forma ta’ komunikazzjoni. Wara tlett ijiem sbieh ta’ xiri gol-belt inkredibbli ta’ Canterbury, u gol-konkrit devastanti ta’ Ashford, u wara li ntlift gol-pjaciri tas-Cinque Ports fl-ahhar waslet il-maltempata illi kienet ilha [...]

Best Western

Posted on 03. Oct, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Uncategorized

This stay in Epinal is proving to be more than pleasant and reinvigorating. We noticed upon arrival on Friday night that our last minute hotel was bang in the middle of a concentration of shopping zones – foremost among which (at least according to the better half) was the outlet selling all forms of the [...]

Epinal

Posted on 02. Oct, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Uncategorized

We finally got proof that Obama is infallible as the bid for hosting the 2016 Olympics was one by Lula’s Brasil. J’accuse is over the moon for this double-whammy celebrating one of the world’s greatest sporting nations. Anyways, I am going to take this weekend off. Luxembourg promises to be boring this weekend so I’m [...]