Alone at home for 3 months: The power of friends.

So a lot has been going on since my last post, I just caught a pretty annoying cold, had a hair cut, sleeping very late is back on, my phone bricked, and oh, I'm having to deal with my fiancée leaving for a dentist course in Brazil for three frigging months!

I must say, I wasn't looking forward to the weekend alone as I was feeling quite down from the latest shock of coming home to an empty house. At least the suffering is for a good cause and Camilla will be able to accelerate her ratification of her diploma in the Netherlands, and it should all pay off in the end when shes working full time dentist and enjoying the career she truly deserves. So all that's left for me to do is support her 110% and make sure she is back as soon as possible and ready to face any challenge!

As for my weekend, it began with a little me time, and buying three Barrel Aged Beers at World of Drinks, as per usual, when the bois asked me who I was drinking those beers with, all I had to say was this:

Shortly after I get a call from @exyle to hang out at his place and do some of the usual activities of drinking beer and grilling some meat, so you can imagine that I would not pass that opportunity, and so I went and too with my the three BA beers, the Many-Faced GOT from Jopen, the Pohjala Imperial Stout Whisky BA and the Tommy Double-Barrel from Kompaan.

Now, I won't go into detail about how these beers tasted, because in all fairness I was in a "no-fucks-given" mood about everything in general, so I took the time to just enjoy these beers to the fullest without actually recording any descriptions about them. But from my mind I can recall well that I most preferred the Pohjala for its heavy body and most presence of the barrel aromas, but they were all great beers for sure, special consideration given to the Tommy as it cost about 35% less than the other beers, now that's a good deal on a BA!

Now as for the Many-Faced GOT, I had to do some research on this thing to try to understand where this weird name came from, and Jopen didn't disappoint! It turns out this is their interpretation of a Gotland Dricka - A farmhouse Ale from the island of Gotland in Sweden. As for the Many-Faced, this is a reference to Game of Thrones and the Many Faced God, and the blocks in the label make several references to the series, just awesome!

As the beers went in the feeling of sadness was slowly dissipating and I ended up having an great time! So great that I was invited to stay over for the night, which I most certainly accepted!

Next day we went to a very very awesome market Hanos, where every chef and fat person's dreams come true. We spent only 2.5 hours as it closed really early, 3PM, but enough time to get us a 2.5kg piece of pork belly to prepare some burned ends, which @exyle covered extensively in his blog. As for me, my highest point in the market was witnessing 3 live giant King Crabs inside a tank, look at these monsters!

Anyone who knows me knows how much I love to cook, and looking at these beautiful crabs made me have dreams at night, if only they weren't so damn expensive. But now that I know where to buy them (live, no less), I can plan ahead for a very special dinner with Camilla to include King Crab as the main attraction, perhaps when she's back from her trip? We'll see. All I know is that a great weekend at a friend's house (and this visit to Hanos) really made me feel better and took my mind to fun places, so I'm quite happy to be surrounded by great people like that. A lot of times friends make all the difference.

Cheers and good night!