BELGIUM
This post is a little late seeing as Neuerburg had another internet drought.
After doing my grand mini-europe tour the week before last, we made the critical error of booking a flight back for friday, which left us with the less than peachy prospect of a weekend in Neuerburg/Bitburg. This is a fairly major step-down from the capital cities of western Europe.
So on the Sunday we made a pretty quick decision to hit the road for Brussels. Having been driven through Belgium a fair few times now to and from various exotic places, I was ready to actually make a stop there and get out of the car. Thus: Brussels.
It was slightly easier to drive in than Paris, though it's worth mentioning that Belgian roads have potholes the size of sumo wrestlers, so weaving all over the place is encouraged rather than frowned upon. We parked in an area like this:
This part had a very Dutch feel to it, almost like Amsterdam with main roads instead of canals.
After a bit of walking, we came across this, which I have to assume is Belgium's answer to Berlin's famous Brandenburg gate. That statue on the top is pretty much a replica anyway. I think it's part of an art museum.
Brussels is also the home of the official council of the European Union. Security is somewhat lax around this seemingly important cornerstone of European politics, though in all fairness, what would any terrorist gain by declaring Jihad on Belgium?
To give you some idea of how cool the Belgians are with stuff happening near this building, this is a sign we saw in that little plaza thing in the photo immediately above.
Belgium must be the only country that actively encourages this. I did notice that it seemed popular in Barcelona, but I'm sure there's still some social stigma attached to going round a city on roller skates.
This sign was on a cafe.
Bless the Belgians. According to urbandictionary.com: "Smoot - A midwestern American term describing a tight and usually clean shaven vagina. It is widely considered to be the highest quality of vagina, and is rarely found on any females with the exception of young college girls from the suburbs."
We didn't end up going to this cafe.
We did however find some German, which after a whole day of reading Frelgian was a welcome sight.
I was all "Glücklich?!!?! Hellz yeah!!"
And then we went home because we had school in 10 hours or something.
This post is a little late seeing as Neuerburg had another internet drought.
After doing my grand mini-europe tour the week before last, we made the critical error of booking a flight back for friday, which left us with the less than peachy prospect of a weekend in Neuerburg/Bitburg. This is a fairly major step-down from the capital cities of western Europe.
So on the Sunday we made a pretty quick decision to hit the road for Brussels. Having been driven through Belgium a fair few times now to and from various exotic places, I was ready to actually make a stop there and get out of the car. Thus: Brussels.
It was slightly easier to drive in than Paris, though it's worth mentioning that Belgian roads have potholes the size of sumo wrestlers, so weaving all over the place is encouraged rather than frowned upon. We parked in an area like this:
This part had a very Dutch feel to it, almost like Amsterdam with main roads instead of canals.
After a bit of walking, we came across this, which I have to assume is Belgium's answer to Berlin's famous Brandenburg gate. That statue on the top is pretty much a replica anyway. I think it's part of an art museum.
Brussels is also the home of the official council of the European Union. Security is somewhat lax around this seemingly important cornerstone of European politics, though in all fairness, what would any terrorist gain by declaring Jihad on Belgium?
To give you some idea of how cool the Belgians are with stuff happening near this building, this is a sign we saw in that little plaza thing in the photo immediately above.
Belgium must be the only country that actively encourages this. I did notice that it seemed popular in Barcelona, but I'm sure there's still some social stigma attached to going round a city on roller skates.
This sign was on a cafe.
Bless the Belgians. According to urbandictionary.com: "Smoot - A midwestern American term describing a tight and usually clean shaven vagina. It is widely considered to be the highest quality of vagina, and is rarely found on any females with the exception of young college girls from the suburbs."We didn't end up going to this cafe.
We did however find some German, which after a whole day of reading Frelgian was a welcome sight.
I was all "Glücklich?!!?! Hellz yeah!!"
And then we went home because we had school in 10 hours or something.
