Bargain hunting in Zeeland

I was in Zeeland last weekend hoping for a repeat of last year's sun and sea holiday. Alas it turned into a wind and rain vacation with occasional dry patches.

Still it was nice to be away in 'the nature' and away from my laptop and the internet for four days



We schleped around Middleburg on the Saturday afternoon - joining all the other damp and disappointed tourists, though I imagine the shop keepers were delighted. At Lucas's suggestion we went into a brocante, where I found these two wonderful bargains - an African mask (more than one metre high) and a woven basket (using three different types of twig / straw). I am sure I paid less for the mask than it would have cost me to freight it back from Africa and the basket is so unique I'm surely going to find a use for it.



And Lucas found an armful of Donald Duck magazines for a couple of Euros to keep him happy!

Movie script?

This story could - and should - be a movie script or at least fodder for a stand up comedian. I wonder if large amounts of vodka were involved in this exploit. 'Yeah we'll steal that JCB, put it through the window of the bank grab the loot and then make a high speed getaway in our high performance,discreetly bright yellow, people carrier'. Desperate times, desperate measures.

This reminds me of a episode of Citizen Smith from about thirty years ago. The one where he steals a Chieftain Tank from Salisbury Plains, gets some target practice in on the local gnomes in his local suburb, then tries to use it storm the Houses of Parliament. Only to be told very politely by the policeman on duty that they are all away on summer recess. They don't make them like that anymore (I wonder why).