Sup Y'all

Hiya choppers, it's me again. Back to give you a little insight into my beautiful little world and what's been happening in it.

To be honest not a lot has happened over the past two days and it's been nice to just "live the dream". Monday I was meant to go for a cycles ride with my housemate and team-mate but fortunately for my sleep requirements it rained and was sub-zero temperatures overnight so I got to have a nice long sleep and finally got out of my pit at around 11am.  Of course all of you would have been in your offices, or wherever else you may work, drinking coffee (or tea if you are into that stuff) and talking about what happened in Eastenders or Coronation Street when you caught up with episodes by watching the weekend omnibus. Anywho, back to me as that is why you are reading......Monday continued with a nice little turbo spin whilst listening to some classic Whitney Housten and I then cleaned little Mel Madone, had a nap, ate some nutella, had dinner and went to sleep.....all in all it was a splendid rest day and long may they continue.

Onto today and it started off nicely again with another long sleep, a little bit of email and skype action and of course facebook, a little nap and then some nutella and then a ride with one of the riders from the guys team, Gert. He took me on an awesome route and showed me some pretty hardcore climbs, on all of them I was thankful for having my little 39 chainring as some of them were bloody hardcore. He then took me up a nice cobbled climb and I had the shakes for a good minute after that climb. It was a cracking ride and Gert took me up some of the climbs that are in the Belgian classics and around some pretty cool roads....I have more of the same planned with him tomorrow and cannot wait.

Anywho that's enough about cycling, more about life in Belge and my new "family". I've settled in nicely with my new family, well I like them and I hope they like me so if they do like me then yeah for sure I've settled in nicely. I'm starting to get a bit of an accent which I hope to progress onto speaking Dutch....I'm learning the lingo and picking up new words everyday, today on the ride I even had to teach Gert how to say left and right in Dutch, and he says his English isn't so good! Mariska is one of the daughters of the family I'm staying with and to say she is a good cook is an understatement....she is like Delia Smith but better!!! Tonight she cooked an awesome Lasagne which was well received after a long evening ride. Kristina is the eldest daughter and also a rider on the team and she is helping me learn Dutch whilst also showing me around Belgium and where we live and being a good translator to help me understand what's being said so basically yeah the family are cool and it's nice to be a part of a big family though I do miss my mumsy.

Apologies if I have been blabbering on, it's 22:15 here right now (I do like military time) and I'm a tad tired and also rather cooked after today's ride. I also couldn't be bothered to proof read this before sending that important Publish button so if there are any spelling errors or it doesn't read nicely, well I send my sincerest apologies.

For now, I shall say laters and as the Belgians say, Salut (that means bye bye)