Oh sweet sugar-scented air – Bonjour Belgium! We stayed in Brussels for 4 nights and visited Bruges during our stay French is sort of the dominate language in Brussels, and Dutch is sort of the dominate language in Bruges. We could sort of get the gist of written French (like at the train station and on menus etc), but Dutch is just gobble-dee-gook to us ignorant white swine.
One thing we really noticed in Brussels - they love their giant open unusable spaces. Hey, here's nice s[ace, let's turn it into a big fuck off courtyard. Hey, I like this road, lets make it 100 meters wide.
We stayed in a loft/apartment which we had booked through Airbnb, and it was great. Loads of room & privacy, and we saved money by making all our own meals including sammiches for lunch. We found the people to be generally nice, not overly, but then again Brussels is very tourist heavy. It was a bit of a combination of Prague and Venice – old town + tourist town. The buildings were seriously amazing, the waffles equally so, and the chocolate shops.. oh man..just plug it into my veins!
Bruges was great, very touristy, loads of cobble stones and old buildings. It had some canals too like Amsterdam. I had my very first whole bottle of beer here, in fact I had two bottles – ground breaking stuff. I admit that it was girly beer (called Pink Killer); it had grape juice in it. But still. I drank beer. I know Jess & Victoria will be very proud of me.
