Back from July 4th weekend Long Island City linkage

Please move the fireworks permanently to the Hudson. LIC was so pleasant last weekend without throngs of people clogging up the parking and waterfront…

I was thinking of Bruno the whole time I watched that video.

Yes and I paid $7 bucks for a scoop of ice cream and a waffle. A bit on the high side but it tasted pretty good. There was also another truck selling Taiwanese Chicken (I think?). I have seen both of these trucks in Midtown.

5, you did not pay $7 for a waffle and ice cream. You’re kidding, right?

It’s no wonder Belgium is such a rich country. They sell cheap food like french fries and waffles at exorbitant and us dumbass Yanks go gaga over the stuff.

10, true, but it’s made by a bunch of monks for probably pennies.

12, When I hear “Belgian,” “quaint” is certainly not the first word that comes to mind.

When I think of Belgium, I think of Chimay, pavé, Eddy Merckx, Johan Museeuw, Sven Nys and Tom Boonen.

Speaking of Tom Boonen, he better start riding and giving Cavendish a run for his money.

Any bars in LIC showing TdF in the evenings? Now that would be quaint…

When I think of Belgium I think of the Walloons who were the first European settlers in New York City, which of course was not a city yet, just a potential crowbar for settlement. But it wasn’t the Dutch. It wasn’t the spruce-shoed, dike-stuffing Vandies! It was the Belgians…
:-)

You may think what you like, and it does indeed gratify me that some of you harbor such appreciation, however, Belgium is not a real country, and I should know inasmuch as I was born in Antwerp and educated at the Royal Charter University of Liege. Much like the United States, or modern Germany, Belgium is a gross political fiction, a product of political expediency conjoined with exceptional private funding. Ostensibly, it was delineated as a provisional territory intended to separate Picardy and adjoining French lands from the Netherlandish counties and properties administered by the pan-European Habsburg dynasty. The French and the Austrians, you see, did not agree on a number of points. In any case, when the Austrians retired in 1794 due to the subtle interference of the English, the French gained control. We Belgians taught the French forthwith how to make the frites, prior to the revolt of 1830.
The French are welcome as tourists, of course.

I would love it if a bar was showing the Tour!!! I think Domines Hoek would be a great bar to do it but they don’t have a TV (props to them for the other 11 months of the year).

I think Cavendish is going to be a tough sprinter to beat this year!