Belguim, Brussels, Brew
I am at a convenience store/Internet cafe in Brussels, Belgium, waiting for the train to my next destination. Internet rental is pretty cheap here - about two dollars per hour. The keyboards here are arranged differently and typing is slow.
I had a pretty quiet weekend. On Friday I took the Thalys train from the Disneyland station, through the beautiful French and Belgian countryside, and arrived at the Gare du Midi station in Brussels in about 90 minutes. It took me awhile to figure out how to take the tram to my hotel, but I finally got there.
The center of Brussels is dope - narrow cobblestone streets lined with shops, restaurants, and bars, and people everywhere. The hotel I was at was right on Grand Place, a giant town square bordered by amazingly tall old buildings. It wasn´t exactly the Four Seasons but you can´t beat the location.
I slowly figured out that the transit pass I bought was not useful, as you can walk anywhere in the center easily. Spent the weekend pretty much exploring and museum-hopping - the Musical Instrument Museum, the Comic Strip Museum, and the Beer Museum. The MIM was awesome - walking around listening to samples of musical instruments from throughout the world - but the beer museum was a letdown. It basically was an exhibit of the equipment you´d see at a Gordon Biersch, and a film on brewing that I didn´t understand because it was in French. But you get a free glass of beer at the end, which was kinda cool.
Speaking of beer - the beer here rules. Stella Artois, Duvel, Tongolo Double Blonde, and Chimay, and on average it´s about four bucks a glass.
That´s about it for now. I´m headed to the train station for my next city. Lates!
museum tour followed by beer, why didn’t we think of that??
I wasn’t surprised to read the word “strip” in your blog, but I didn’t expect it to be sandwiched between “comic” and “museum”.
Jung, you better hurry to the next pitstop or else you may be eliminated!