Emma and Mark! We hope you have an amazing day!
We will have a toast on the start of a new chapter today!
Have fun and enjoy this once in a lifetime day!
zondag 8 november 2009
Congratulations to...
Emma and Mark! We hope you have an amazing day!
We will have a toast on the start of a new chapter today!
Have fun and enjoy this once in a lifetime day!
donderdag 5 november 2009
Care International Charity
2 days in London... What do you do when you know Mister Gary Barlow has some appointments in his agenda???
We arrived in London by bus, early in the morning. We thought we had enought time to check in in our hotel and refresh before going to the studios to where Mister Barlow would perform with his protegée Camilla Kerslake. We arrived there around 7.45 am, just a bit late to see the artists arrive, but since there were still a few fans outside, we thought we might still get lucky when they would leave.
We waited in the cold, but felt confident, since there were soo little people waiting at the gates. But unfortunately we did not get lucky this time... Camilla left the studios and Mister Barlow was nowhere to be found. We stuck around a bit to watch Camilla handle the fans and than decided we didn't mind having our picture taken with the lady and asked her too. She is sweet!
We had time 'off' 'till later that night, where we would get our second chance of spotting Mr. Barlow, so decided to do some shopping and eating!
Shopping for Take 1 and Take 2, although ended up not buying them, since online shopping is much cheaper! How bizarre!
We ended up having lunch somewhere south (after almost fainting when we spotted a nanny pushing a buggy with 2 beautiful kids in it, while we were asking a mailman for directions), in a very quite but nicely decorated winebar and toasted on our weekend in our favourite city. We felt we were already lucky to be there and having seen those 2 little rascals... 2 glasses of red later (or rose for Els) we left again and walked to the tube through a park. We still have no idea how we made it to the tube station, since all of the sudden who was in our eyefield? Marcella with her youngest. Good God, how she looked HOT HOT HOT! She wore a very nice hat and we watched her getting smaller at the horizon. We just couldn't leave before she was out of our sight...
Back to the centre of London to have a drink (no more wine - we both felt a bit hungover already * was it the wine, the gorgeous man or the fact we had our first glass on an empty stomach?) and do some more sightseeing.
Late afternoon, we went to the O2 Academy in Brixton, where we hoped to spot Mr. Barlow this time. We waited for him in the cold for hours and warmed ourselves a bit standing next to his cab... (Healthy to stand in the warm fuelgasses of your idol?! - although at this moment we didn't know yet this was his taxi)
We saw Milton and Lee leave through the backstage door before the event started and never saw them returning...
Finally Gary was on and luckily for us, we could listen to him through the guest entrance where the door was open and the security didn't mind us standing there. After Rule The World, Patience, Back For Good and Greatest Day (not in that order though), Gary left the stage and passed us... We tried to get his attention, but he didn't stop for us. We felt really bad, because we were only 4 waiting there for him. That didn't take long though, 2 minutes later, all the fans from inside stood outside to wait for him as well...
When he finally left, we missed our chance for a photo and a chat, since the fans were pushing and pulling eachother to get to him... I have no idea exactly what Els did, but I left the crowd immediately and stood behind his car. When he got in, I stood in front of the car, bend over and waved. I was the happiest little teenager to see he bent over in his seat to see who was in front of the car and waved back! I was a happy bugger, the car started and they raced off...
We went back to the hotel, feeling like we sat in a freezer all day, knackered but soo happy about what the day had brought us.
The next day we decided not to try and spot Robbie at the airport and went for breakfast on Kensington High Street instead. We were really enjoying our Chicken Caesar Wrap, when I noticed a familiar car at the traffic lights. Before the car passed, we were already sure who would be in the car and got excited that we would have a glance at Mister Donald for the split second when he would pass the bistro... He crossed the street, 'blinked' his car en when I wanted to see which street he would turn in, I bumped my head against the window... And I wonder why people stared at me at that moment?! The day had only just begun and we could already say we had seen another Thatter. The only 'bad' thing about seeing this man was that I couldn't finish my breakfast anymore!
We strolled around the streets of London, still couldn't believe how lucky we were. The day before I had seen a hat and a bag I wanted to buy, but didn't because I thought they were a bit expensive. Today I decided to buy them after all. Because Els didn't feel like going to the shop with me, she waited in a park, on 'our' bench (where we once fed a squirrel fries). When I returned, she was busy texting a friend about something, so I stood there waiting and told her very calmly: 'Janninneke is there'... Inside we both went mental, because this couldn't be happining... Janninneke was wearing grey trousers with a black stripe on the side, a dark jacket, a grey cap and had an umbrella in her left hand. She didn't take any notice of us, luckily, because I think my mouth was wide open with surprise...
Still shaking from the excitement, we decided to leave the park and come back later to relive this moment. That was a great idea: When we returned to 'our bench' a few hours later, we bumped in to Harietje (we were looking at the pavement and almost literally bumped into her), who was on her mobile - and was looking for Janninneke! Harietje was wearing red jeans and her wellknown but awful beige coat... Both of them were too busy looking for eachother to notice these two Belgian girls blushing and walking past... We had a quick look behind us and saw them walking off together...
After this encounter, we needed another drink! We went for another stroll, but this was just all too much... we were so happy about seeing our lads, we went to celebrate with dinner. We couldn't stop gazing outside the restaurant though, hoping that our luck would continue and someone would pass by the restaurant... hahaha, how pathetic do you think we looked?!
We said goodbye to our 4 friends in thought and took the nightbus back to Belgium...
How lucky can you be? Book a random trip to London, to find out that Gary and Robbie would be performing somewhere and out of the blue spot all your idols separately???
PS: other visited places than the obvious ones: Sarm West Studios, GMTV, BBC Center, Portobello Road, Kensington High Street, Young Street and some parks...
PICS to follow later
We arrived in London by bus, early in the morning. We thought we had enought time to check in in our hotel and refresh before going to the studios to where Mister Barlow would perform with his protegée Camilla Kerslake. We arrived there around 7.45 am, just a bit late to see the artists arrive, but since there were still a few fans outside, we thought we might still get lucky when they would leave.
We waited in the cold, but felt confident, since there were soo little people waiting at the gates. But unfortunately we did not get lucky this time... Camilla left the studios and Mister Barlow was nowhere to be found. We stuck around a bit to watch Camilla handle the fans and than decided we didn't mind having our picture taken with the lady and asked her too. She is sweet!
We had time 'off' 'till later that night, where we would get our second chance of spotting Mr. Barlow, so decided to do some shopping and eating!
Shopping for Take 1 and Take 2, although ended up not buying them, since online shopping is much cheaper! How bizarre!
We ended up having lunch somewhere south (after almost fainting when we spotted a nanny pushing a buggy with 2 beautiful kids in it, while we were asking a mailman for directions), in a very quite but nicely decorated winebar and toasted on our weekend in our favourite city. We felt we were already lucky to be there and having seen those 2 little rascals... 2 glasses of red later (or rose for Els) we left again and walked to the tube through a park. We still have no idea how we made it to the tube station, since all of the sudden who was in our eyefield? Marcella with her youngest. Good God, how she looked HOT HOT HOT! She wore a very nice hat and we watched her getting smaller at the horizon. We just couldn't leave before she was out of our sight...
Back to the centre of London to have a drink (no more wine - we both felt a bit hungover already * was it the wine, the gorgeous man or the fact we had our first glass on an empty stomach?) and do some more sightseeing.
Late afternoon, we went to the O2 Academy in Brixton, where we hoped to spot Mr. Barlow this time. We waited for him in the cold for hours and warmed ourselves a bit standing next to his cab... (Healthy to stand in the warm fuelgasses of your idol?! - although at this moment we didn't know yet this was his taxi)
We saw Milton and Lee leave through the backstage door before the event started and never saw them returning...
Finally Gary was on and luckily for us, we could listen to him through the guest entrance where the door was open and the security didn't mind us standing there. After Rule The World, Patience, Back For Good and Greatest Day (not in that order though), Gary left the stage and passed us... We tried to get his attention, but he didn't stop for us. We felt really bad, because we were only 4 waiting there for him. That didn't take long though, 2 minutes later, all the fans from inside stood outside to wait for him as well...
When he finally left, we missed our chance for a photo and a chat, since the fans were pushing and pulling eachother to get to him... I have no idea exactly what Els did, but I left the crowd immediately and stood behind his car. When he got in, I stood in front of the car, bend over and waved. I was the happiest little teenager to see he bent over in his seat to see who was in front of the car and waved back! I was a happy bugger, the car started and they raced off...
We went back to the hotel, feeling like we sat in a freezer all day, knackered but soo happy about what the day had brought us.
The next day we decided not to try and spot Robbie at the airport and went for breakfast on Kensington High Street instead. We were really enjoying our Chicken Caesar Wrap, when I noticed a familiar car at the traffic lights. Before the car passed, we were already sure who would be in the car and got excited that we would have a glance at Mister Donald for the split second when he would pass the bistro... He crossed the street, 'blinked' his car en when I wanted to see which street he would turn in, I bumped my head against the window... And I wonder why people stared at me at that moment?! The day had only just begun and we could already say we had seen another Thatter. The only 'bad' thing about seeing this man was that I couldn't finish my breakfast anymore!
We strolled around the streets of London, still couldn't believe how lucky we were. The day before I had seen a hat and a bag I wanted to buy, but didn't because I thought they were a bit expensive. Today I decided to buy them after all. Because Els didn't feel like going to the shop with me, she waited in a park, on 'our' bench (where we once fed a squirrel fries). When I returned, she was busy texting a friend about something, so I stood there waiting and told her very calmly: 'Janninneke is there'... Inside we both went mental, because this couldn't be happining... Janninneke was wearing grey trousers with a black stripe on the side, a dark jacket, a grey cap and had an umbrella in her left hand. She didn't take any notice of us, luckily, because I think my mouth was wide open with surprise...
Still shaking from the excitement, we decided to leave the park and come back later to relive this moment. That was a great idea: When we returned to 'our bench' a few hours later, we bumped in to Harietje (we were looking at the pavement and almost literally bumped into her), who was on her mobile - and was looking for Janninneke! Harietje was wearing red jeans and her wellknown but awful beige coat... Both of them were too busy looking for eachother to notice these two Belgian girls blushing and walking past... We had a quick look behind us and saw them walking off together...
After this encounter, we needed another drink! We went for another stroll, but this was just all too much... we were so happy about seeing our lads, we went to celebrate with dinner. We couldn't stop gazing outside the restaurant though, hoping that our luck would continue and someone would pass by the restaurant... hahaha, how pathetic do you think we looked?!
We said goodbye to our 4 friends in thought and took the nightbus back to Belgium...
How lucky can you be? Book a random trip to London, to find out that Gary and Robbie would be performing somewhere and out of the blue spot all your idols separately???
PS: other visited places than the obvious ones: Sarm West Studios, GMTV, BBC Center, Portobello Road, Kensington High Street, Young Street and some parks...
PICS to follow later
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