Well we have survived the Belgium trip we took couple of days ago. And have to admit Brussels is impressive.
We took eurostar from St Pancras International to Brussels midi where we took a cab to our 5* Plaza hotel. The Hotel was lush and elegant. Shame about the service though. For a 5* hotel you would expect much more than what was given. But hey, we survived.
After settling in we decided to take a little mini Europe tour. Which we looked at before on the Brussels Tour Guides. Mini-Europe has the reproductions of the most attractive monuments in the European Union on show, at a scale of 1:25. Roughly 80 cities and 350 buildings are represented. The park contains numerous live action models (train, mills, eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Airbus, cable cars, etc). It was pretty cool to see it all. (Check out some pics from the tour below).
The following day we booked a tour to Antwerp, which is Belgium's 2nd Largest City just next to Brussels. Antwerp is know for having the World Diamond Center which is the biggest export City in the world. For lunch we went to a small Italian restaurant down the road. The food was delicious and good value :)
After being moved into 4 different rooms back at the hotel because of air conditioning, we decided to go and wonder off into Brussels city center and check out some of the shops and bars. I have to say the people are very friendly and I was surprised that most of the people spoke The English Language as if it was their mother tongue. We were amazed by the tour guides. They went around the coach asked where each person is from and while doing the tour spoke in all the languages! Literally it would be one after another. In Belgium they speak mostly French, German and Flemish. The tour guides were speaking in English, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish....just to name some.
On the last day in Brussels we decided to take a tour of Brussels. Brussels has some amazing building structures. The architectue is beautifull.
All in all we had a great time. I managed to take a few snaps so check them out.
Peace
p.s. Try the Belgium Waffels. YUM :)
MINI EUROPE- BRUSSELS BELGIUM
ATOMIUM
ATOMIUM
BELGIUM WAFFELS. YUMMYYYY
MANNEKEN PIS
CHOCOPOLIS CHOCOLAT FACTORY
MY BABY :)
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