Lesson learned

Well today I learnt an important Life lesson. Pity this lesson had to be learned in french and due to my lack lustre ability to master the french language I didnt learn alot. Well the its abit of a story actually and all good storys start with Once upon a time so here goes.....

Once upon a time me and Ryan or for you english buffs Ryan and I decided we had, had enough of living on a chicken farm and we wanted bigger and better things. After 2 months on this chicken farm we finally had found a new apartment and today was the day for the big move. It started like any other. Up at 10 milling around on the internet for a couple of hours knocked out a Tour of Flanders and a Criterium International before lunch, a productive day really then before we know it is ticking over 3 o'clock leaving us a precious few hours to clean up the house and get the hell outta there. After 3 hours solid packing and cleaning and peeling dust off everything (probably the reason i've been sick for the past 2 months) we finally had the place tidy to a solid standard i must say. Standing there looking around I felt a sense of satisfaction that we had actually tidied the place up, the urge to leave the mess for the owner was tempting but we got there in the end. This is where my Lesson was learned....

Our team director Mathieu was picking us up to take us to our new home, it was going to be to trips so we packed up his car as full as we could, then jumped on our bikes for him to drag us to our new apartment. Our new Home is 10k from Pepinster, a nice wee town called Louvgnie. For the trip to Louvinge we held onto the car as he proceded to drive sometimes up to 100km/h. Some scary shit. It doesnt help i was holding onto the drivers side window having to dodge oncoming traffic and make sure I didnt get stuck in any of the rivets down the centre of most Belgium roads. Ryan had his own problems being on the passenger side with most of the potholes being on that side of the road so he had a bumby ride plus he tells me a few dodgy moments almost being put into the ditch at 100km/h. So that was our first lesson for the day learned. At all costs dont hold onto a car at 100km/h. There were positives though, we probably now hold the record for the fastest Pepinster to Louvigne trip by Bike. After unpacking the car it was time for me to return to the farm and learn my second lesson for the day.

On returning to the farm we were greeted by the owner not looking to happy. She begins to nut at me in french saying we havnt paid rent or given her key back. I politely told her to check her table and low and behold there was the rent and key, what a surprise. This knocked her off her guard abit and her next nut just didnt have the same affect if I hadnt just bummed her out 2 minutes ago. She takes me up to the apartment and starts nutting about the couch. We had removed the legs of the couch after one of them broke off and it was now abit of a lowrider. After explaining to her that it broke, not surprising for a 20 year old couch she went of the topic and proceeded to the next thing. It apeared that 2 towels were missing, By this point i was over her nut and pretty much told her to settle down no point nutting of towels. I think this might have put her abit on edge as she started counting the Knives and forks to see if any were missing. I think abit dissapointingly for her they were all there and she had to quickly think of something else to nut about before I took the upper hand. She had the nerve to try and tell me that the apartment was dirty and we had to pay her 50euro for it to be cleaned. I am not kidding the place was spotless and considering her house could be on one of T.v shows for messy house I thought she was being a wee bit hipocritcal. Our quarters were 10 times cleaner than any other part of the house and by this point I was thinking to myself get f**ked. We finally left and I am glad it will be the last time at the farm house. Now the lesson learned was landlords are F**ks and no matter how tidy a place is there always gona try find something wrong. Pity this lesson was learned in french and dosent translate over to english so really it was just funny instead of a real learning experiance.

But sitting here in our new CLEAN apartment it feels good knowing that the chicken farm part of my life is over and I can now move on. I think life is going to be a whole lot better now. Moral is on the up and hopefully i'll start racing abit more now that i'm getting strong. Thats enough of my ranting for now. Hope everyones well. I'll try put some pics of our new home up.

Peace Out