For around 9 hours we were traveling to Brussels, Belgium in a train looking like this:
We had a stop at Koln (Cologne) at say 7, 8 or 9 am but that was just for a train transfer. Very uneventful.
Finally received this text from Vodafone at around noon! YAY! A different country! What up?
At our first (and only) Brussels bus ride
We checked into our hostel and then proceeded to go around Brussels's city center first: GRAND PLACE (pronounced like "Grand Plas")! Really pretty place!
We first ate at this Greek Restaurant (Greek in Belgium's kinda a weird choice haha)! but since I really wanted me some Belgian Waffles, Fries and Chocolate, I opted to have a Belgian beer instead ... They say it anyways that's one of the must-tries in Belgium.
Belgian beer!
Cute Restaurant
We continued to marvel at the Grand Place very pretty and then we moved on to explore the rest of Brussels!
We passed this hotel that a bunch of police were flanking. I think there must've been some politician or VIP visiting and we got curious but never really saw anyone that looked important:))
On the way to the Manneken Pis, we saw na sooooo many chocolate shops! No exaggeration, Belgian chocolate really is LOVE!
We finally got to the Manneken Pis and super labo! We did not really get what the hell this was supposed to be famous but it's here and that's it. Just a Manneken Pissing ... Labo. HAHAHA!
After that we, just did a sweep of all the nice sights around Brussels in a span of 2 hours or so! We visited mostly all their churches, the senate-congress etc area, the palace-y area and that's that! Mostly all of the must-sees! Good time management and route-planning by Butch Lorenzo! :))
Some people were being so mean and sly trickster-y looking at the over-the-city thing which I have a picture of above. They make you sign this thing, telling you it's a signature drive then bigla the last column is like for the amount of your donation or something! Right then, we realized it's a scam duh! Mean people. I gave them 10 cents. HAHAHA! I could not understand their language but I know the girl was pissed. Serves them right. HAHAHA!
After the Amazing Race-esque tour around the city, we then went back to the area near Grand Place and Steph and I got ourselves some authentic Belgian waffles! So yummy! I died! I got a banana, whipped cream, melted chocolate one and it was sooo good!
We sat here while eating and we marveled at the pretty long Grand Place view!
We went around Brussels more to see it at night and while it's less orderly and clean than Germany, it was nice still! We ended our night with our last stop being the Grand Place once again. I took a video of it since the view in the evening with all the lights is really something but blogspot being weird and I can not post videos for some reason. I will update this entry when I can with the video of it! :)
Tschuss!
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