Ferry Funny

It's 10.18am as I write this post. French pirates have blockaded all of the French ports and I'm supposed to be travelling to Dunkirk later today to catch a ferry to dear old England. These are desperate times for me, I am down to my last 2 PG Tips tea bags and have to use a jar of back up curry for dinner tonight! To make matters worse, I am completely out of naan bread!
To say that I have been cursing the French over the past few days is an understatement. Trying to look at the situation logically it's hard not to sympathise with the French fishermen who feel their quotas for certain fish are too low. I'm sure every fisherman in this part of the world feels the same, whether they are French, English or whatever...but to block the ports all along the French coast is just a cynical act and all they are doing is helping to destroy small businesses all over Europe. So much for solidarity amongst Union members. Surely they would have made more impact on their government if they had organised a flotilla of fishing vessels to sail up the Seine into the heart of their country. Once again the British and all neighbouring countries to France have to pay.
It's time to boycott France. People of Europe, come to Belgium to spend your Euros. It's a lovely place for a holiday and the Belgian people are so much nicer than the French! The beer is better and cheaper and although their chips are not up to the standard of the British, they are still bloody nice. You will not visit a more stunning town, anywhere, than Brugge and if you are a regular reader then you will know all about Antwerp! If you are after some pretty countryside then you need go no further than the Ardenne. See? You do not need to go anywhere near France.
I can't post this without saying that I know one French person and she is very nice and as far as I know has never blockaded anything in her life. It's a little bit like when I wrote my Football post a while back. Sometimes it's hard not to look at certain countries in certain ways. My opinion about Argentina being a nation of cheats is based on one football match. I'm (almost) positive that Argentinians are not cheats by nature. Just as I'm (almost) sure that the French are not a nation of *bleeeeeeeeeeep* who for some reason resent the British and constantly try to damage our trade..but sometimes it's hard not to think of them in this way.
Come on people of France, protest if you must, but leave us Brits out of it for a change!