Great British Beer Festival
For breakfast today we picked up some traditional Cornish Pasties (pies filled with potato and steak). They are definitely the best way to get the most calories for your money in England. They are also very tasty, though they could have done with a bit more steak.
So, if you are planning to get to the netherlands from England, buy your tickets in advance and understand that the high speed boat still takes 3 hours. It took forever to get the tickets at the train station. For some reason, they don't have automated tickets for the boat service.
We still had time to finally go to the Great British Beer Festival. There was so much ale. The booths all had rack upon rack of kegs with delicious bitters, ales, ciders and lagers. The belgian booth had a great traditional lambic. Lexi found a porter that she really liked as well as a great silly hat.
The festival had traditional pub games that involved throwing cheese shaped projectiles at a bunch of bowling pins, landing rings on a beer pump, or landing pucks into point bins. Lexi and I tried the cheese throwing one but didn't get any prizes. All the money from the games goes to the Campaing for Real Ale, a non-profit group focused on preserving pub tradition and defending drinker's rights. I don't exactly know who's attacking drinker's rights but apparently they need a non-profit to defend them.
There was even an American stand, serving up mostly Sierra Nevada and some Arrogant Bastard Ale. It seemed to be doing brisk business.
After the festival we caught the train to the port and boarded the boat to the Netherlands.
The boat had mini casinos, theatres, restaurants and shops. It was like a mini resort on the water. We had already seen the only good movies they were showing and we didn't much feel like watching the pacifier. The casino had no poker though, so it was of no use to us. We ended up spending the time on the boat reading our novels. When we finally landed and caught our train to Amsterdam, it was 2am.
Our hotel room was great. It had a living room with a great view of Amsterdaam Centraal and a huge tub. I wish we had gotten in earlier so we could have enjoyed it more, but we atleast got a good 9 hours of sleep.
So, if you are planning to get to the netherlands from England, buy your tickets in advance and understand that the high speed boat still takes 3 hours. It took forever to get the tickets at the train station. For some reason, they don't have automated tickets for the boat service.
We still had time to finally go to the Great British Beer Festival. There was so much ale. The booths all had rack upon rack of kegs with delicious bitters, ales, ciders and lagers. The belgian booth had a great traditional lambic. Lexi found a porter that she really liked as well as a great silly hat.
The festival had traditional pub games that involved throwing cheese shaped projectiles at a bunch of bowling pins, landing rings on a beer pump, or landing pucks into point bins. Lexi and I tried the cheese throwing one but didn't get any prizes. All the money from the games goes to the Campaing for Real Ale, a non-profit group focused on preserving pub tradition and defending drinker's rights. I don't exactly know who's attacking drinker's rights but apparently they need a non-profit to defend them.
There was even an American stand, serving up mostly Sierra Nevada and some Arrogant Bastard Ale. It seemed to be doing brisk business.
After the festival we caught the train to the port and boarded the boat to the Netherlands.
The boat had mini casinos, theatres, restaurants and shops. It was like a mini resort on the water. We had already seen the only good movies they were showing and we didn't much feel like watching the pacifier. The casino had no poker though, so it was of no use to us. We ended up spending the time on the boat reading our novels. When we finally landed and caught our train to Amsterdam, it was 2am.
Our hotel room was great. It had a living room with a great view of Amsterdaam Centraal and a huge tub. I wish we had gotten in earlier so we could have enjoyed it more, but we atleast got a good 9 hours of sleep.
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