Brussels & Antwerp

This last weekend Maya and I hopped a train Friday after work and arrived in Brussels two and a half hours later.  We met Maya's friend Hugo (a Canadian doing an internship with NATO) who showed us around Brussels on Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday morning. Everyone I talked to before leaving told me Antwerp was better (and we stopped for a few hours there on our way home to watch the sun set over the river) but I must say I loved Brussels.  It's a very international city dominated by foreign interns working at NATO, the UN, the European Parliament, and the European Commission among others.  The fries are incredible (Hugo took us to a local frite maison that uses traditional potatoes and traditional ox fat) and so is the beer.  Also had moules frite and waffles (separately of course) to keep energy up as we walked all over Brussels from the glass and steel European Parliament buildings in the new part of the city to the incredibly ornate Royal Palace and Grande Place. Antwerp on the way home was also a beautiful city although it was a little dead due to it being Sunday.  I found my second castle on the banks of the river that winds through the city and Maya and I lost track of time and had to run several blocks to catch our train back to Amsterdam on time.

Oh, and I can't forget the florentines from Mary's chocolatier.  Undescribably good.  Still dreaming of them.

Mary's Chocolat.  One of the top 3 chocolatiers in Brussels.

There's a new album for pictures now (albums are capped at 200 pictures)


Here is the link to the old album (from August until mid October)

And the link to the new album (mid-October onwards, including pictures from Brussels and Antwerp)

Enjoi!