Tuesday, January 09, 2007

BETTER IN BELGIUM!

Coffee's better, food's better, hotel's better, internet's better (Amsterdam was €22 for 24 hours, limited to 400MB vs free with the room), chocolate's better. What's not to like about Belgium?

Is today only Wednesday? Yes, I think so.

Tuesday was spent at the Nike European HQ with very limited Internet access. Followed by the longest, most difficult drive I've ever taken in Europe from Hilversum, NH to Hasselt, Belgium. The number of transitions from road-to-road were tough at night after a long day, jet lag and questionable dinner where the waitress started us out an appetizer of glass shards (four exploding glasses dropped on the table) followed by a 5 minutes before she got around to refilling the lettuce in the salad bar. Obviously service (automatically included in the bill) isn't a high priority in the NH.

The Nike Help Desk could not have been any kinder, letting me use their lone DSL connection to the Internet.

Today is Pam's tour of the DC in Laakdal. This is the European equivalent of Memphis but about 20% of the size.