Brussels
As I mentinoned in my last enty, it was already late when we got to Brussels. We asked for the bus and got our tickets for one trip. People were mostly speaking French. And of course we couldn’t understand much. We again got off at the last bus station. Luckily, there was a very old man walking around and he was speaking English. He helped us big time and thanks to him, we could find the way to the flat of our host. It was 10 minutes away on foot, that was no problem, we were already used to walk with our huge backpacks.
He was living on a long long street, so all we had to do was to find the right house number. And we did that. Surprising, isn’t it? However, we couldn’t find the bell for his name, so we had to call him. Even though we sent him an SMS saying we were going to arrive on that day, he thought it was still one day ahead. So, when we called him, we was pretty surprised. Anyway, he came down and opened us the door and welcomed us. He showed the flat, where we are going to sleep and such. We had some nice chat, where to go and where to visit and that was the first hours of Brussels.
The next morning, we got up and left the flat an hour or so later. We went to this big cathedral, I guess they did have some discount for students or the entrance fee was really less, so we got in. We walked around and then using the elevator which has a chair kind of thing to sit on, and we got to upstairs.
From up there you really have a nice view of the city. We made several pictures. And we could also the big atomic thing from there, so we had to make some stupid photos about that too. Later we went to the city/touristic center. We got a free map there. We were walking around and making pictures as usual. Funny thing, there was this guy who was asking for some charity probably for one of his sick friedns. He was speaking in French, and after he got we weren’t understanding anything, he asked: “English?” And then he started right away saying all those thing in English like an Uzi. He wasn’t paying attention to what we were saying. After all, we said no and kept walking. Ohh, wait, I forgot something. First there was a girl telling us that story, she also first started speakin French but then he asked Zukhov whether he speaks Spanish or not and she told her story in Spanish and we said no. Yeah, then the guy I mentioned above was telling us that story and we told him that there was a girl who had told the very same story before and he kind of got upset.
Well, like an hour later, we run into the same guy again. He didn’t recognize us and again started telling his story in French, and then all in English. I was telling him that we have met before and bla bla, he was not paying attention, not at all. He was the one who was losing time, and yeah, after 5 minutes, after he had stop speaking, I repeated my answer again. Finally, he was done.
We visited several touristic places marked on the map. We were almost all the time walking, but it was no big deal. The city center is not that big. We both were already used to walk that much & fast, so there was no problem for us.
We visited a really nice park, some nice buildings, skyscrapers and the big Atomic Thing. I keep calling that thing because I don’t remember its real name anymore. Sorry for that, and let me know if somebody knows about it. They also had some student discount but it was still not that cheap, but it was almost the only thing we had to pay for in Brussels and we did it. It was nothing extraordinary after all.
I guess they also do have some experimental things going on there, but at that time we didn’t see any. So we went up took some pictures and videos and then came down again. The thing we regret was the small mini Europe Park nearby. We saw it from the top of the Atomic Thing and we wanted to go in after, but the entrance fee was so expensive, as far as I remember about 18€. So we couldn’t go in.
We ate some super sandwiches near the main train station on one of the famous squares in Brussels. We got some nice chocolate and got to the gate which looks exactly like the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin. Not much people were there at the time, there was a Turkish family I guess who were trying to make something like picnic and they had drums and were making some sort of music too. We were not complaining.
After we had our rest, we headed back to the flat. That time we knew how we were supposed to find it. We again had some chat with our host Oscar, and that was it for Brussels. Next day we were going to go to Brugge.
Buyruk Alparslan – October 07 – Balikesir / Turkey
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