LAST weekend, I went to Belgium. It was quite an adventure to get there because the Belgian conductors were on strike and apparently trains were not getting into or out of Belgium. We got lucky though and eventually made it in. We arrived in Brussels in the early evening and found ourselves a cute little bar called La Mort Subite or The Sudden Death Pub. Charming as it was there was not enough room for the whole gang so we moved down a food alley (they had huge displays all over everywhere of fruit and clams) to a more accomodating restaurant.
We took pictures of the Grand Place at night and it was gloriously beautiful. Then we went in and out of a few bars, ended back at the La Mort Subite and called it a night.
In the morning we went to Brugge for traveling purposes. Burgge is a museum. A free open air city museum. The gothic architecture everywhere was more than we all could have expected. We saw The Church of Our Lady where Michaelangelo's Madonna and Child is.
Then we ate a Quickie the local equivalent to McDonald's where the burgers taste like pork. We ate fries at an infamous fry stand and went into the Church of Christ's Blood and touched a sepulchre that supposedly contained his blood. How they got it I'll never know. We saw the Belfry, and I feel like this blog post is way boring because I'm just listing the things that I saw. My apologies.
The next day we went back to Brussels to see Manneken Pis, which is their famous little boy fountain that pees.
They dress him up all the time and when we saw him he was dressed like Mozart and I was amused. Later we saw the Atomium which can only be described as an oversized atom. The we took the train back and promptly passed out.
PS The city of Brussels actually smelled like Waffles and the waffles were delicious.
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