Brussels

Postman finally delivers the photo cd from Sam. Hehe. I'm so excited. Seems like I have no more excuses to not blog about this trip. =) So, here we go...

We started off the journey with Brussels, Belgium. Blame me for bad general knowledge, I didn't know Brussels is the headquarter for EU and NATO until I reached there only to find out there're many big and seemingly important buildings around with EU logos. Also, not till Sarah told me their significances since her current internship is with one of them. =)

Oh yea, come to talk about Sarah, she's my french flatmate in first year who used to feed me with lots of cheesy yummy pastas and french bakeries, can't believe I didn't see her for one whole year already.

Brussels feels very much like another european city and in fact, a 'white' Edinburgh, for all buildings are built mainly with white bricks as compared to brown ones in Edin and architeture wise they are similiar.

Walking on brussels' streets, we came across a big crowds in front of a cinema and red carpet stretching out. Hmmph...what could that be!

So, it was Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore running premiere for their new shows 'Musics and Lyrics'. We didn't catch a glimpse of that two for our stomachs were grumbling too severely. Hehe.

"Come Brussels eat Mussels"... "Come Brussels eat Mussels"...

Hehe. Due to our daily budget schemes, we eventually settled down with a 12 euros 3 course mussels meals. Despite the not-so-friendly attitude of the waiters, we were pretty well self-entertained, especially with Sarah's ways of eating mussels.

Hehez. Flung the fork and spoon, how do you eat a mussel using another mussel?

"Always make two mussels kiss when you want to eat them" might be a cheesy way of putting it, but yea, thats the way indeed! Sarah said its the French way of eating mussels. Aikz, these French... always so obssessed with kisses, no wonder they have french kiss too. =P

I love mussels. But, they bite!

After dinner, it was the Grand Place we went to. Just right outside the restaurant. As the name suggests, need no explanation, it is a grandly place. Lit up with thousand lights, I wasn't sure with the significance of this place so, all we did was... what else?

Take PicTures of cOz!
Before heading back to hostel, we came across these....

The famous Manneken Pis, the little boy that pee on a bomb and managed to save the whole village out from it.

A dunno what statue, but appparently everyone touches it from top to bottom. Very much like moslesting it. Sounds weird. People says it brings good luck. Hmmph...