Both Mrs F and I are currently sitting in Strasbourgh visiting our friend Christian. His good lady Chloe arranged a surprised birthday weekend for clj. After much hilarity on the six hour drive from Dunkerque to Strasbourgh, where our navigation system “Rick Rick” suffered nuemrous errors sending us in a variety of direction, none of them directing us towards our target destination. So after a hard reset of “Rick Rick”, which due to it’s age took a while, we swapped to the GPS on my mobile phone. Anyway, once back on track to Strasbourgh and driving in four different countries, we arrived a little before 4 in the morning.
Later that morning, we ventured out into Strasbourgh for a coffee before heading off to surprise clj. Some of the others arrived the night before and appeared at his doorway, to which he was completely taken aback, that people had travelled from the UK to come and see him. Apparently his responsed was “I hate you all”, but obviously in the nicest possible sense. Then to see another three friends standing in the middle of Strasbourgh, he was again suitably lost for words, only able to say “yeah”. Anyway, after a delicious lunch and seeing some of the sights of Strasbourgh, including the Gay Pride parade (think they might have put this on just for clj) we ended up by the river having a well deserved beer, and a lovely ice cream (including surmf flavour!!).
Now, I’m sitting here as Chloe and some of the others prepare some food, just to finish off the day. All in all, it has been a very enjoyable day, and I think clj is completely overwhelmed. Anyway, when I get back I’ll put some pictures up to go along with our little trip. I’m just sorry that we can’t stay for a little longer to help him actually celebrate clj’s birthday tomorrow.
At least on the way home I won’t have to rely on “Rick Rick” so the trip should be more straight forward!