Brussels!

June 15th 2008

Meghan and I caught the train at 10:56 from Amsterdam to Brussels this morning. We got here around 2 pm and immediately got lost in the rain. It took us about 45 minutes and a few nice people later to finally find the hostel. Our first impressions of the city are that it is very ugly. Our second and third impressions are also that it is very ugly.

We walked around in the rain and sampled some if the food and beer. The beers are very good here... it is the city of beer after all. After a few beers we went to a free movie in one of the bars in the night life area. We saw Paris Texas. It was a move in the Cannes Film Festival in the 1980's so it was a bit slow... but ok. Watching it with a bunch of other people in Brussels made it worthwhile though.

After we left the movie we thought we were done for the evening so we started back. Soon after... and still as I type this... we could hear the horns of the cars in the street. We realized that Turkey had just won a Euro 2008 game. The people were going crazy in the streets. They run with flags and sing. Kids are hanging out of cars and riding 4 wheelers in the streets and the police do nothing. It is fun to watch. We walked about 20 minutes back the the hostel and heard the people the whole way. They even organized into a parade at one point.

The evening turned out really nice when the sky cleared up and the buildings lit up. Its not too bad at night here if its nice out. Our hostel seems nice and there is no one else in our room tonight so its more relaxing than having people come in at 3 am talking really loudly. Well, thats all for now.

- Alex