Went up to Brussels this weekend where a coworker from DC, Mel, just starting to work with NATO. The first site to be seen would be Brussels' most famous - Manneken Pis. More on it later, but it's a small statue of a kid peeing. Well, at least Brussels has beer, waffles, chocolate, and seafood to fall back on...
When walking past a bunch of seafood places, I made a comment about snails being on a lot of the menus. Mel said, with no previous bacon-wrapped-bacon conversations influencing her, "they're actually pretty good wrapped in bacon". Consider the bacon makes everything better point proven.
Next up, a bar that's in the Guinness book for most types of beer. They had 2004. I drank 2. One tasted kind of like Sam Addams, one tasted a lot like pennies. mmm... copper...
Sunday morning we went over to a flea market. I was thinking it was going to be a tourists' flea market with lots of souvenirs, but it was definitely more geared towards locals. Nothing purchased, but I came across an 8-track car stereo. Unfortunately, it wasn’t compatible with the Fiat...
Brussels summary: Beer – good. Mussels – excellent. Waffles and chocolate – fair. Statue of kid peeing – weird enough to warrant its on blog post.
4 comments:
You had two beers...and one tasted like copper and that warranted a "good" rating. How bad was the chocolate?
I had more than two beers, but only two beers at the one place.
Beer always greater than chocolate, thus the rating. I'll also say the chocolate I've had in Stuttgart was better.
beer chocolate and bacon...now i ask you, is there anything more to life? well the best sister ever. hi:)
and Helga
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