Absinthe & Electro

Le samedi 17 février 2007

Quoi de mieux que se lever à 13h après une longue nuit de débauche!! Je sais! Se lever à 13h et aller faire son jogging! Eh my my, c'est pu l'hiver ici en tout cas parce qu'après 5 minutes, le polar est parti et la bouteille d'eau tait ouvarte! On est allées se perdre dans Saint-Josse encore une fois pour aller faire des petites comissions à notre "Giant Tiger" (magasin cheap qui a tout est rien, notre petite découverte!). Mais cette fois, on est parti direction nord sur la Rue Royale parce que je voulais voir c'était QUOI cette maudite belle église "machin-truc" avec le toit rond qu'on voyait au loin... et voilà:

Wow... mettons que quand on allait jouer "dans le stationnement de l'église", l'église était pas mal plus petite que ça!

Gen and I left around 10 to go to the center to go have our first shot of Green Fairy Absinthe at the Floris-Bar, a bar SPECIALIZED in Absinthe. But before that, we went to the Delirium RIGHT on the other side of the "street" (there's barely enough room for a bicycle in that sneaky spot). The Delirium is specialized in BEERS rather than absinthe: over 2 thousands brands of beer! Yes sir! Anything you want, they got it! Somewhere, down there in the cellars, or dungeons... it might take a while, but they'll find it! Chocolate flavored or lavendar, they have it! We met a few random Erasmus students there, and as we walked in the Floris we met people from friday's party! It's a small world after all!

Delirium

So I look at the wall behind the bar, and it's lined with more than 200 bottles of... Absinthe! All of them! We had to go through a binder with descriptions of all the different brands... my first shot of absinthe ever was a random choice: Château Saint-Ferran, 80%, with crushed ice... taste like zambuca! Of course, only one shot over a big dinner doesn't have much effect on a tough girl like me! ...honestly.

First shot of Absinthe @ Floris Bar

We then went to the Bourse-Bar, a bar in front of the actual Bourse (what an original name). And I was initiated to electro "music" (noise). It was pretty horrible. Like Marianne said it so well "You must either sacrifice your rythm or your style!". Or have some other music playing in your head! Or put a bucket over your head and smash it with a hammer! Well, maybe I should have had more absinthe... or ecstasy... let's not go there again says I!

Electro noise @ Bourse Bar
"Get me out of here!"

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