today we had to say goodbye to the gorgeous puppies and Rodez we're about to jump on a
flight all the way to brussels good news is that that flight goes from this small little town of
Rodez because it's Ryanair bad news is that it goes into a small little town in Belgium
so the travel day is not going to be a short one but we get to end the day
exploring brussels and seeing all of the cool things like monk and piss
is that how you say it ?
Europe in summer huh
and we have a whole row to ourselves flying a small airport a small airport has its perks
we did do the maths on choosing to fly into the Charleroi airport it is a lot
cheaper than flying straight into brussels even after you add on the two buses that we have to
get there is really only one option from the Charleroi airport into brussels and that's the
flibco bus it has a lot of one star reviews and some pretty horrendous commentary but
hopefully we can find it we'll see how we go
are we sure it's through here
so far that's super easy the flight was nice and
quick these buses are right here that apparently will take us into the city
i can't wait to get a waffle all of those one-star reviews
not too bad we only waited like 10 minutes and look at the view we've got
that was easy i'm gonna get the number six but i don't know if it's a train or a bus
it leaves from here somewhere
that's all i know
just dropped all our stuff down at the airbnb we've got about two minutes left on our metro
ticket before we have to buy another one so we're racing to the tram hopefully we can get on
i'm pooped
so we're on the tram and then they pull up to this stop but it's not really a stop and like
50 policemen jump on and we're checking everyone's tickets and it was really intense
luckily we got a nice cop because technically i think we were like two
minutes over our allotted time but we only had one more stop so they let us stay on
i thought it was gonna be like a big statue not a little leprechaun i guess it's a little boy
the silliest attraction i've ever seen in a city i love it
apparently it's not the real one the real one got stolen like seven times
they had to put it away at a museum and this is an exact replica
Manneken Pis is a little bit underwhelming there's a lot of people though it seems
incredibly popular for what amounts to be not that much she's found waffles
oh the whole town just smells like syrup and waffles how does anyone get anything done
this looks like a chocolate box container does that make sense like a really fancy
chocolate box container you'd get at Christmas and it has like a scene on it no this is crazy
this is a great place it is pretty grand there's a lot of gold here as much as she
tried to navigate us to the grand palace we made it to the grand place this could be a palace
look at all the gold we're outside a king of the people would have an outside palace
yeah it is beautiful though a lot more gold than i thought it would be and it's such a shiny goal
we've been in Belgium for about three hours now and i've waited as long as i can
let's go get a beer
doesn't it seem like harry potter i'm gonna go find my wand
how cool is this it's like the indoor galleries
shopping center and it looks like we've been plopped down inside of a harry potter movie
i actually love it here a Christmas themed center a Hogwarts themed mall and then this
a huge fan of Belgium this is great
come to this place that has or did have the world record
for most beers commercially sold in one place so the menu here is just intense
it is day two in beautiful brussels we've picked up a nice iced coffee
from the Lidl across the street and now we're going to go see all the things
that we missed yesterday like the atomium and the park for 50th century something
how is it actually pretty good
reminds me of a farmer's union iced coffee from home but like a home brand version
you know what it looks like what one of those do you remember those toys you used to have as
a kid and you had to like throw them at each other or something yeah i'm getting home alone
vibes like you threw them downstairs yeah and they stood on them and it was like pain yeah
this is the famous atomium here in brussels it is actually an iron molecule that's magnified 165
billion times it looks really cool it's bigger than i thought it would be as well so this was
built for a fair kind of like the Eiffel tower was apparently you can go inside it's outside of our
budget but we really want to go touch it because it looks like it'd be really cold for some reason
do you reckon that's made out of iron that'd be hella meta i really like it
it's bigger than i thought it was going to be that's what she said especially up close
we couldn't touch it because it's elevated a bit disappointing but a couple more stops on
this trip before we get to do what we really wanted to do and try all the Belgian food
the Japanese garden in the middle of brussels is a
little bit jarring didn't really expect that but cool nonetheless
do
you know anything about this place i don't remember super well but
this place was built for a 50th anniversary of the Belgium revolution to commemorate it i think
really nice last stop now we are starving and we're gonna go get some waffles some chocolate
some fries that machine gun sausage sandwich yeah whatever it is really nice i'm so excited