Fall Travels, Part 1- Brussels

ceiling in basement bar at Delirium

So I wanted to get up to date on the latest travels this Fall. In September we went to Brussels, saw a soccer game (US vs Belgium--Belgium won but the US was totally cheated out of a goal, so it should have been a tie). Highlights include going to a beer festival, visiting the Chocolate Museum, going to the Delirium Bar which serves over a thousand types of beer (or was it 2,000?) and has 3 different floors. It's a really cool place.

I just remembered a funny thing that happened when we were in the Delirium bar. The three of us, Frank, Ryan, and me, were sitting at the bar and Frank was showing Ryan pictures of himself when he had his mustache. Suddenly, these three French kids who were walking by stop and start talking to Frank, all excited because of his mustache photos. They we're like, "Hey!! That's awesome!!" "We used to have mustaches, too!" Who knew that dudes bonded over their facial hair. I guess girls do similar things. So anyway, we were all talking to them for a while but not in French. They were not impressed with my language skills at all.

Atomium

Yes, Brussels has good food and beer. Waffles, frites, etc. It was my first time having mussels-- they were good. I thought they tasted like the ocean. We stocked up on stuff at Carrefour on our way home-- beer, chocolate and Speculoos cookies.
Apparently it's a known fact that Brussels, or Belgium in general, has terrible weather. We got a lot of rain and crazy windiness. I think this is a cosmic lesson for me to learn, how to just get over it already when the weather sucks. (It happened in Greece also, which I'll write about in Fall Travels, Part 2.)