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Out with Friends

Calandrias and Stephen had arranged to meet some Dutch friends at the Coopers. It was another night when Y Cwps had entertainment. Robin was there with his triple harp and tonight he was performing to Balestrand on the Sognefjorden in Norway and to Thun on the Thunersee in Switzerland. They were special places to Stephen as they were the locations of his first holidays abroad as a child. There were performers at those locations too. This Swiss (as normal) had a yodelling quartet and a horn player whereas the Norwegians were presenting epic Viking tales.

The beer was still good and the range was enormous. Stephen had decided to have a bottled Frambois Belle Vue. This always reminded him of that first day when he met Calandrias in the Roi D'Espange at the bottom of Grand Place in Brussels. A funny pub with the bladders hanging from the ceiling, the marionettes and the stuffed racehorse, but a very friendly place. They had finished that night at Chez Adrienne down by Place Louise; that really must be one of finest restaurants in Brussels. Calandrias chose Ouzo, she had drunk that in the little cafe on the rear path at the Acropolis when they had all gone there in the summer `98.


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