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Post by badger on Nov 30, 2006 16:23:39 GMT
Hi gang -
I've been drafted into a work trip to Brussels in mid-December.
Anybody know a good place to swim south of the city centre? I'll be staying near the Troon metro station.
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Post by namkinoib on Nov 30, 2006 16:36:00 GMT
surley swimming in brussles would be a bit tricky, unless its a very large sourcepan and the water is not boiling  |
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Post by slacko on Nov 30, 2006 16:37:00 GMT
Brussels? Hmmm, not sure about swimming but I advise you take a good book.
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Post by badger on Dec 1, 2006 11:08:14 GMT
Bump.
Anyone?
This is just as good as Slowtwitch ...
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Post by doug on Dec 1, 2006 11:11:46 GMT
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Post by Daz on Dec 1, 2006 11:16:08 GMT
only know one in ghent. id be a bit weary though mate, they arent the most higienic with their pools Bump. Anyone? This is just as good as Slowtwitch ... B |
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Post by chris on Dec 1, 2006 11:28:10 GMT
Don't know about swimming, but the strip bars are rubbish.
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Post by badger on Dec 1, 2006 11:33:35 GMT
Doug - thanks for reminding me ... great site. That's an exalt coming your way.
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Post by badger on Dec 1, 2006 12:52:41 GMT
BTW, Doug -
How do you like the Slowtwitch "handle"? I've been living in the UK too dang long - but I know that no one in the US would come up with that name ...
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Post by doug on Dec 1, 2006 14:13:50 GMT
I thought forkin' 'ell 'tis a good one
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Post by barnetrose on Dec 1, 2006 15:45:46 GMT
Warning - the pool where I occasionally swim a few kms outside Brussels won't let you in without a 'bonnet' (swim cap). Hygiene at that pool is better than where I swim here in the UK though.
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Post by badger on Dec 1, 2006 16:00:07 GMT
Warning - the pool where I occasionally swim a few kms outside Brussels won't let you in without a 'bonnet' (swim cap). Hygiene at that pool is better than where I swim here in the UK though. I always swim with a cap these days. Thinking of taking my IMUK cap to make "friends". Thinking of using the pool at the Vrije Universiteit, not too far from my hotel. 25m, doesn't look too shabby. BR - is there a charge for lockers generally? €1 piece that you get back? B |
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Post by namkinoib on Dec 1, 2006 16:09:55 GMT
cant belive you all ignored my exellent joke  |
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Post by barnetrose on Dec 1, 2006 16:20:21 GMT
BR - is there a charge for lockers generally? €1 piece that you get back? At the place where I swim, no charge and no key, just a keypad on the front of the locker where you tap in a 4-digit code (then try not to forget it while you swim). It also has changing cubicles with two doors - one to the outside corridor and one to the locker area and pool. I didn't realise the first time that a fold-down shelf locks both doors...trying to get changed while keeping two doors closed is a bit stressful (doh). Check opening times as they seem a bit haphazard over there. Having never swum elsewhere in Belgium I don't know if these things are standard in Belgium or just peculiar to that particular pool. |
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Post by badger on Dec 1, 2006 16:34:07 GMT
cant belive you all ignored my exellent joke It wasn't ignored. It was simply disparaged without comment. Like all my really grate jokes. (Didja see that? A pun on how rubbish I am?) |
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Post by badger on Dec 1, 2006 16:38:54 GMT
BR - is there a charge for lockers generally? €1 piece that you get back? At the place where I swim, no charge and no key, just a keypad on the front of the locker where you tap in a 4-digit code (then try not to forget it while you swim). It also has changing cubicles with two doors - one to the outside corridor and one to the locker area and pool. I didn't realise the first time that a fold-down shelf locks both doors...trying to get changed while keeping two doors closed is a bit stressful (doh). Check opening times as they seem a bit haphazard over there. Having never swum elsewhere in Belgium I don't know if these things are standard in Belgium or just peculiar to that particular pool. And then when you get to the exit, a quiz: "Name three great Belgians." Otherwise you're charged double on the spot. Eddy Merckx Roger Vlaminck Ermmm ... that guy who buzzed Brussels when it was occupied by the Germans in the Great War ... Willy Coppens? |
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Post by doug on Dec 1, 2006 16:47:30 GMT
I thought the great Belgians were:
Tin Tin
Hercule Poirot
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whatshisface
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Post by namkinoib on Dec 1, 2006 17:08:38 GMT
is,nt hillary duff belgian?
as is omar sherrif, gandalf,emu and rod hull, simon le bon and jesus
FACT!
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Post by barnetrose on Dec 1, 2006 17:59:23 GMT
What about chocolates. They're Belgian and great.
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Post by bigdick on Dec 1, 2006 18:49:53 GMT
If I had two smites you'd both get one.
No namkinoib would get two. First for a rubbish joke and the second for whinging. The most pitiful display since the "These jokes don't write themselves / Tumbleweed" episode.
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