Brew Movies

Susan at a vintage restored railway station in Salt Lake City, the Grand Union. Utah is surely a strange state, mighty religious but one gets the scary feeling it could all 'kick off' at any moment !! Perhaps there are deep psychological traumas caused by alcohol urge repression - for example we saw the Jazz (Utah's NBA team), and in the 5 man team two of them have the surnames 'Boozer' and 'Brewer' - it just can't be a coincidence :-)).

Nevertheless we enjoyed downtown SLC, and found a very very cool Cinema/Pub combo 'Brewvies' where you can watch films, chat, get food and drink, with people wandering in and out of the cinema all the time - we saw 'Cloverfield' which was a bit intense for that venue IMHO, would better suit old standards we think. http://www.brewvies.com/
Here's Susan in the brewvies cinema in SLC with a pint, the text in the background is on the cinema screen, happens to be an advert before the film.



Snow was fantastic in Park City :-) This sign was seen at the Pig Pen Saloon. For a utah ski resort this is an excellent bar, in fact by any standard it is worthy. However, our extensive independent tests show that at 3 feet from the bar you can still order, pay for and reach the beer. It needs to be 4.2 feet if it's ever going to work ;-) ttfn xx

We rest our case at the European Court

Here's Susan at the steps of the European Court in Brussels. If we had thought we would have brought the suitcase just to put it down and say we rested our case there, but we didn't and the moment passed........ Brussels was another most pleasant surprise, fine food, great art and museums, nice people and fine living including chocolate and beer.

We found a Django Reinhardt festival, by accident, which is a sort of gypsy swing jazz with guitar as the feature instrument - sort of Grappelli style - anyway it's another revalation in that there are still whole genres of music that are unexplored and quite brilliant too. Here's a band called Place de Broukere, well worth 10 Euros of anyone's money to see.

Mmmmmmmmm Belgian chocolate fountain..........

Right now we're in San Diego on a rainy Sunday morning waiting to see the Superbowl this afternoon probably in Jolt'n Joe's, then on to Las Vegas and up to Park City for for skiing if Doug's knees will take the strain, photos show he's not getting any lighter you know :-)

TTFN xx