Travelog for: Greedy

I'm here on the main place of Bruges !


Mistigree told me to look for a restaurant to eat for lunch and I chose that one (because of the fries of course...)


I finally got my fries !! Of course, I couldn't eat them without eating mussels too as it is a well-known meat here in Belgium.


Finished !!


The dessert was a praline cream with lots of chantilly on it ! Just perfect !


In the evening I watched the sun going down on the canal... but I prefer "food tourism" than sightseeing, that's for sure !

Today we went to visit Ostende.


It is situated just near the North sea.


Here is Mistigree's and my shadows on the sand !


It was windy and what I prefered during that day was the time while we were at the restaurant for our lunch.
There were peanuts and sausages slices at the begining.


And then a tomatoes soup, that was very welcomed !


The main meal was fish cooked with grated red peppers and served with creamed potatoes.


There were no dessert but the coffe was served with some chocolates and this was my dessert !

Another visit today ! We were in Gand which has very colourful houses on its main place.


It also has a castle with the Belgium flag flying over it !


I ate fries for the second time, but this time it wasn't with mussels, but with some excellent cheese croquettes.

This time, I'm in Bruxelles, the capital city of the country.
The breakfast here is even more copious than the one in Bruges ! Look at my plate !


I went to see the Grand Place, the main place of Bruxelles.


Behind me is the townhall.


This is "rue des marchands", the street where we can find lots and lots of restaurants.


Most of the restaurants are selling seafood as you can see.


Of course, there are also waffles (but I did not eat one of them and it is one of my regrets !)


And the famous Belgium chocolates !


Hey look ! I even saw a Manneken Pis made of chocolate in a shop !


Then I went to see the real Manneken Pis which is very little and could become a ToyVoyager if he wanted to !


As one of the mission of Bestik who was there with us was to visit the Atomium, I went there too. There was even a restaurant at the top of the Atomium but we did not eat there.

Last time, I saw this restaurant's sign somewhere in the town centre and I think they have done it especially in my honour, don't you think ?? The character on it looks like me and also looks as greedy as me !


It is my last day here in Toulouse. Mistigree is a little fed up with me, because since I've been living here, her food's expenses have tripled !! However she bought some cherries especially for me, but it is a pitty that I don't have ears so that I could hang them on my ears as they were earings !


Deborah, are you ready to welcome me ? I'm coming soon and I'm HUNGRY !!!!!!!!!!!

In London at last, the door was opened by a badly dressed bear. I asked him where the food was. I didn’t quite catch what he said I but spotted the kitchen straight away. And there it was – the refrigerator! The bear kept wittering on about something or other but I didn’t pay much attention as it clearly wasn’t as important as food. Honestly, he didn’t even have the common sense to get out of the way!

Well, the food in the fridge didn’t go very far. Luckily the human has come back with some bags of shopping and has promised to make me a meal. Come on – hurry! hurry!

And here it is: diced polenta with sweet peppers, onion, garlic, mushrooms and peas, cooked with extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar and mixed herbs, topped with freshly ground black pepper and served on a bed of wild rocket with vine ripened cherry tomatoes. Look out – I’m going in! 

I certainly don’t think much of that vegetarian rubbish. It hardly fills you up at all. In fact, I’m so hungry I could eat an elephant.

Well, what do you know! And no bear in sight....

Uh-oh............................ bear’s back...

Ooof! Ouch! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhh! Thud!

Let me back in! What did I do wrong?

I craftily managed to get back into the house, although I admit that it was a bit of a tight squeeze. By this time Deborah had taken pity on me and agreed to feed me three times a day so long as I promised to be good.

For breakfast I had one measly slice of toast topped with mushrooms, spring onions and toasted pine kernels.

At lunch time it was quinoa served with crunchy celery, chickpeas and olives in a spicy tomato sauce.

And for dinner I was given two vegetarian sausages accompanied by a rather small pile of red lentils mixed with green peppers, mangetouts, petits pois and a dash of dark soy sauce.

Really, I may as well have stayed outside eating the garden plants.

When I leapt out of the suitcase I could tell by the way that Travel Ted jumped up and down that he was very excited and pleased to see me and that it hadn’t been his intention at all to leave me behind while he went on holiday. I know he’ll be thrilled that I managed to correct his terrible oversight.

It was really quite generous of him to go out and leave me alone at the breakfast table so that I could have his portion as well. A nice big bowl of muesli and some bread and cheese was a reasonable start to the day, but it was in the chocolate shop that I really found myself in my element.

Deborah thought it would be nice to take me out for a bit of sightseeing so we took a cable car and chair lift to the top of a mountain. I know that everyone was only joking when they commented about the way the cable above us creaked when I hopped on. I don’t know why they were all so interested in the panoramic views. I was much more interested in the café where it was very kind of them to insist that I drank so much beer. I felt slightly bad about falling asleep for the rest of the day.

I tagged along to Italy where I had to make do with a rather light lunch of a tuna, olive and tomato salad and some focaccia filled with grilled aubergine and emmental. I think I’d better go and look for some ice cream to fill me up.