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- bb huge and imposing as the pictures represent; it to "be does it justice. '
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• The "guide"
rj , . Having spotted a lace shop before we entered the law courts
Bert and I wandered beck that way. "English eooken here" was the on the window, hut in spite of it we tood a chance and entered the
cuttir-.l°„orentUrPwlE!e the ?roPrle,tor did *!>«<’*English, but with a guttural accent. However we gave nun the benefit of the doubt and
invested some of our hard earned snekels in real Brussel Is **
of which I mailed you several days ago. _ lACe» POme
Wotovi leaving the lace shop we made our way to the Boulevard de
rLI nf Rha/afnifl0enJ street, 100 yards wide and bordered by foir* row. of snade trees. I oil owing down it we came to the Portdu H«n
‘urning'toTal^hfii0 °f rOT»6rt8 «>•* “<=* ^rouSed ‘the hty made tracks for the Grand Plaoe. Avenue du Midi we
go good but (Sai <wmtnW+ I"® feeling as £0 £,ooo, out decided to take a promenade down the main street town, Boulevard ^nspach. It u Bfine wide thougn very good, do not come intoihe same class as those on'the^Fue oe la Paix Paris. Certainly there has beenno shortage of ?ood in the town, for the windows were full of appetizing grX Sf coSr'S the prices were high, but not nearly so high as here in Mona.
"About 6 o'clock we turned into the Taverne Adolph and for ^ff0B flJd J mighty good meal. ¥ In the evening we promenaded
lorrv°Pte7nrnf ia wnJle» t00k in a movie. Hopped' into lorry at 10 o cIook, and were back here again at 3 A.M. after a verv
enjoyable day. As it wasn't necessary for me to appear on parade X
^noon fy- .^at's the use of holding down a o^teen job if a fellow can t get a little extea comfort now and then.
,. , Turned down a leave to Blighty last week. I have a hunch
that I 11 see all I want of that country before very long. I put in
for leave to Baples several days ago, and was informed today that I'd
+ ® ieaV1ff °n It will be a long trip down there, but ought
to be^well worth it. Yesterday I borrowed "Cooks Guide to Southern* Italy from our pay sergt, and have been busy reading up all the done on Haples and Home. Cowan advises me to go straight through to P haples by rail, and do Rome on the way back. As he knows the rones I
guess I'd better take his advioe. While my leave is only fo? ^daye
it will no ooubt be three weeks or more before I get b^ck In*
the fellow Ao haw overatayod th.ir leaw Slw got off ’ejy £ue?e I 11 ^ave to chance it too# hoping that the #50 I a^ked
Iliehll ere ief°re 1 l6ave- lf not^ 1,11 to aoh a lotn
+„. Wbb out ‘o dinner with Stan Young again on Sunday, and in
by thr^a“°w™. a l0n® Welk “P °8nal bank t0 Himy ™d
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