Can't Remember

I'm struggling to remember what we got up to this week. It can't of been anything too exciting otherwise I would remember what I did. Hadn't raced since the tour last week cause I'm building up for Vlaams Brabant which is a 5 stage tour here in Belgium and it starts on Wednesday so looking forward to that. So yea, all I've done this week is ride and recovered really.
We did have a bbq on Thursday night because it was a stunner day. It's been bloody hot this week so we decided we needed to have a good old traditional NZ barby, too bad Andrew doesn't have a proper bbq. He did have this contraption that he said he made when he was 13 (so it's ancient) and it was basically a fire pit with legs and a grill. I think he stole the grilling plates from the sewer drains that you see on the side of the road cause this thing was pretty DIY but it did the trick. Had to get a fire going and then chucked some coal in then waited for the fire to die down and the coal to do its thing. Sipped back a few cold ones and cooked some sausys and paddies and kebabs. Was some good kai. Then we just chilled outside and played cards.
The weather this week has been stunner but maybe a little too stunner. It's been so hot and pretty impossible to sleep, especially where I'm sleeping which is upstairs. It got up to 33 degrees last week and we all couldn't stop sweating. Like last year, if you open the door and windows then you just get infested with flies. They're all splattered on the window at the moment. Mosquitoes have been a pain as well. They always fly through the big window in the room next to mine and come into my room cause I have no door. So I'm covered in mozzy bites at the moment. I can hear them as well and at night when I hear them I turn my light on on my phone and try to squash them when they land but they always land on the wall to my left or the roof and I can't whack the left wall or roof because it's hollow and I'll just end up waking everyone in the house and probably put a whole in it so I can't win. So whenever I hear them I just grab my pillow and start waving that in the air and that normally scares them off for a bit. Bloody mozzies.
There's been a couple thunderstorms at night too. The best one was on Saturday night. Every second you would see a flash of lightning somewhere. It was flashing every direction you looked. Some got bloody close cause after a second there would be a loud rumble and bang of thunder. Best thunderstorm I've ever seen by far. Lasted a good 2 and a bit hours I reckon. We just turned all the lights off in the house and watched it all happen. There's a crane just across the road so we were waiting and praying that the lightning would strike that. Who needs TV and computers when you have nature.
So yea that's pretty much it. Next weeks blog will be a bit more entertaining and longer and that will be on Monday. Hopefully go good at Brabant this week and come away with something primo.

Sweet, that's all.

Thanks for reading

Nick