Well, this is Belgium. Chocolate on Grand Place, beer in various locations including Place Saint Katherine and the hostel. Brussells is quite nice, despite proclaiming itself an 'ugly city' in the map I picked up. I think it's pretty!
Got into Belgium around lunchtime yesterday, found a hostel and wandered the streets, sampling belgian food and drinks along the way (fries, chocs, beers). Grand Place is AMAZING, everywhere you turn there is another beautiful building. Today we went to three museums: the Comic Art Museum, the Belvue Museum (history of Belgium) and the Brewers Museum (sparse on displays, but the cheesiest movie which was also very informative and thrist inspiring... so we went for beer afterwards).
Tomorrow we head to Bruges for a day trip- a medieval town (or town recreated in the medieval style, according to lonely PLanet). Supposed to be very beautiful and romantic, so I'm looking forward to it. PLus we're going to a chocolate museum there :) With tastings.
Most annoying thing about Belgium has also been quite amusing- each hostel we've been to could only put us up for one night at a time. So we changed hostels tonight, and tomorrow will return to our original hostel for another night! Then Sunday it's off to Paris, and Lisa's tiny apartment :)
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Grand Place was indeed beautiful for the World's Greatest Stage.
ReplyDeleteGlad you seem to be enjoying Belgium as much as we did. After all what more can you ask for than a country with good chocolate and beer?
Carlton beat Essendon by 3 points......
ReplyDeleteBastards!
Jorel
Belgians seem to be very down on their country as being ugly and boring. I've never been there so I don't know, but photos never look that bad. As long as they keep over-compensating by making the world's best beer, it's all good!
ReplyDeleteyou mentioned in an earlier blog that you hit on an australian hostel. well im in tokyo sorrounded by french nerds playing that card game, magic. they should go out and get pissed. anyway, im speaking french in tokyo. i spose it is supposed to be the capital of the world.
ReplyDeleteJorel- HA!
ReplyDeleteSarah- Belgium was great. I LOVE Belgian Beer. I LOVE that it was so cheap. Happy, happy Naomi
Nick- Parts of Belgium are ugly. I think it is the strange mixture of classical architecture with dirty modernity to which Belgians refer when citing the ugliness of their city. But this just makes it so much more exciting to find a great building! Although I did find the air quality REALLY bad, and that uglified some things for me.
Marty- hope you're having an ace time in Japan. London hostels seem to be full of Aussies, NZ hostels full of Germans, so it makes sense that Japanese hostels have their own sub-nationality.