Brussels in a Day

We are only in Brussels for a day, and we got here about Noon. It's been quite eventful.

Regarding that last post, I almost started taking pictures of all the poop on the street and do a little quiz for everyone. Because I'm not entirely sure it is all dog poop. It's like being is gross San Francisco and walking becomes a highly skilled activity.

To start our day, we walked over to the Grand Place - boy, our architecture is ridiculous by comparison. The Grand Place has these four amazing buildings on each side, and the open square in the middle. We got some chocolate - hello! yummy! - and then had lunch. I feel kind of douchey but I ordered the Croque Monsieur and Chris had the same but with a tomato. Total tourists, but damn...they were good. We both had a Tripel Karmeleit - and they were free! Not sure if that was because there was a Kwak/Tripel Karmeleit wagon with horses out front (some kind of promo) or because the owner liked us. I'm choosing the second.

Tangent - Chris is watching the news and this was the flash - "Meat is Murder...Cannibal caught eating his victims liver." For you Smiths fans, you see how funny that is.

Back to Brussels. After we ate, we walked to Cantillon Brewery. OHMYGOD! OHMYGOD! OHMYGOD! OHMYGOD! That will get a post of its own.

Then we came back to the hotel - which is awesome and has a shower AND a bath - and then headed out to Beer Mania, a store that supposedly sells awesome beer and ships to the US. Um...yeah. No fucking way. Number one, the beer selection just wasn't that great. Yes, they did have Westvleteren, but not much else we hadn't had. Then I asked about the shipping rates...198 EURO! For up to 30 bottles, but come on, maybe I'm a giant tight wad, but that's 300 bucks folks, plus the price of the beer. So we bought 2 bottles of Westvleteren and will lovingly cart them all over Europe and home with us. Start thinking about how you will suck up to us in order to get to drink them with us. :)

We also had to walk throught some dicey sections of Brussels, where I kept giving Chris the look and saying "POCKET." That is the code word for "guard your valuables!!" This place is going to give me a heart attack.

We're back at the hotel, but heading out soon to Chez Moder Lambic for some beers. Might see the people from Denver we talked to at Cantillon, that would be kind of fun!