Kerry Beal

Seen in my travels today. I see I managed to get myself in most of the pictures - DUH!

Rather than be too familiar I didn't take a picture of the boss's croquettes (besides I think that's what I'll have for lunch tomorrow when we return to Lola). I had no such hesitation to take a picture of the artichoke being served to the man at the bar when we are on our way out! Maybe I'll have that for lunch tomorrow.

I think I might just have put sweetener in my coffee

Awaiting the arrival of the boss of Ecole at Lola - across the street from my hotel. Came early to enjoy coffee - realized I'd forgotten papers - ran back to hotel - key wouldn't work in elevator - still back in time! Lovely dried fruit and nuts (raisin alert) - and coffee of course with little chocolate pieces on the side

Well that explains it then - watched cage aux folles too many times!

Have enjoyed stuff from Dandoy before - saw at least one shop in my travels the other day. Figured when I'm doing the tour tomorrow I might scoot in there and grab a cookie or two.

pickle it now - the patterns cut will be fabulous

Okra of course!

Would have been be'drag'gled by the time I got home in the pouring rain!

Sadly dessert was not worth waiting for - dry mousse between even drier cake. Ah well the entertainment was fun

Major costume failure - fixed by finding an older fellow in the audience who knew how to dance - clear issues with who got to lead though! The audience was delighted - I thought the wife was going to split a gut peacock feathers everywhere - tiara handed off - one eyelash hanging off

this is must be a familiar character - as the audience was very amused l

I didn't expect Miili Vanilli - I thought drag Queens did their own singing? Help me out wise hive mind

Apparently dessert won't happen until intermission on the drag show - perhaps if they got it started! At least I got tea - and milk after a few tries!

Would swear I was getting a pork chop with endive - must have lost something in the translation

Young man just walked by - took my cutlery and asked if I wanted dessert and coffee - made him bring my knife back - wonder when he'll realize I still have a plat to go before dessert Large man with made up face and still lacking his wig just walked by and kissed a few people - so the show is as I suspected I guess

Bread and water has arrived

The birthday girl has arrived for the party of 30 and so has my duck

Cava has come

I have wandered into something interesting - took a wrong turn on my way to my chosen restaurant and ended up down in the slightly seedy area where I had been yesterday. First restaurant I walked into explained that they only had sausage and cheese at this time of night. So I went into the next friendly looking one and it's a little bit of a madhouse in here. Apparently there is dinner and a show - it might be cross dressing based on something I see on the wall. But they have brought me olives and she promises to come back and explain the special menu shortly. Hope they offer a drink

Be interested in the name - I do enjoy speculoos.

Ok - I've been down the rabbit hole for a bit - the itinerary for our trip came through on my e-mails and I realize that we will be staying in Aalst during the course. My last trip was to Aalst as well - and I was just looking though the old thread to see if the hotel might be the same. Didn't find that information - but figured I needed to link here to that thread so you can join me down the rabbit hole.

Excellent - that just might be dinner tonight if I can run the gantlet of flirting gentlemen to get back there!

Attendees: RobertM gfron1 (tentative) pastryani tikidoc ChocolateMom Audrey Brown TandemChocoPC Chocolot MelissaH (pending)

Walking back I found myself on a street with many restaurants cheek to jowl - I recall it also from my last trip. Mussels, lobster and frites. I was flirted with delightfully by several gentlemen who didn't care that I wasn't hungry - I was welcome to come in and just sit by the fire and get warm. I think maybe they just wanted my money? But it was still rather fun. There was a lineup at this place - guess they didn't need anyone to haul people in. Must say - hitting the same neighbourhood on Wednesday was much less crowded than the weekend.