Marianne'S Guesthouse Brussels
Rome, 33 Brussels, 1060, Belgium
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Bringing in the NEW YEAR, 2012 in Brussels
... all the way up the road about what it had looked like and then Maddie was grabbed by a group of boys. She let out this huge high pitched scream and I remember her face being so funny. I pulled her away and we ran..in the wrong direction. We got lost trying to find our way home and ended up having to find a taxi.
The next day in Brussels we wondered around the city and began our new mission; to find the best belgian waffles in town. We also succeeded. ...
Beer, Mussels, Waffles and Chocolate!
... the Mannequin ****, a tiny black marble statue that provides a water feature via a Number 1. The statue itself was very underwhelming but attracted a big crowd none the less. Around Brussels we visited the historical art museum and a comic museum, which featured Tin Tin, Asterix and the Smurfs. Tin Tin was apparently invented by a guy who lived in Brussels.
For a change we left the big cities for Dinant in the south-east corner of ...
Beer capital of the world...
... hotel we headed down to a place called Delirium Village. With 6 bars/cafes/restaurants, 2400 beers, 800 rums, 350 absinthes, 500 tequilas, 300 whiskeys, and 150 different cocktails. Its in the record books for having the most beers available.It was truly something I had never seen before, the bar with 2,004 different beers is 3 levels and has beer ...
Chocolates, Waffles, and More...A Day in Brussels
... ready for our evening to begin, we all freshened up for our last dinner in Brussels. We had a reservation at the very posh Belga Queen…the place where you go to see and be seen in Brussels. We started our dinning adventure in the bar where Casey tried, and liked (!) her first Belgian beer (Frambois with raspberries…of course it was a fruit beer…baby steps). Dinner was yummy, but the highlight of the evening was exploring the ...
Picturesque and pottery
... left there where they make the pottery. It was amazing to learn how painstaking the process is to produce the hand-painted pieces; hence the price - a simple plate was $170 euros - yikes and up from that! I didn't buy a plate for my collection, but I did buy a few small items from the "sale rack".
Back to Chez Dom for our final night and off to Amsterdam tomorrow.
Au revoir!
S&D
P.S. - no access to photo download right now, so will post some when I ...

