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Rue Saxe-Cobourg 23 Brussels, Belgium
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Bringing in the NEW YEAR, 2012 in Brussels
... we ordered amaretto bombs to kick start the night. After a couple of hours we headed off to the next bar and met a guy who was hanging out by himself (WARNING:stalker #2) He was super friendly and kept chatting away while we mostly listened and finished our drinks. We were going to move to the next bar and leave this guy to do his own thing, but he started following us. He showed us his secret liquor stash for the night which was a bottle of some really ...
Brussels
... It was a bit too quiet in that converted indoor market so we went in search of a more bustling coffee place for hot chocolates and coffees. The hot chocolate came with hot milk and chocolate pieces!
Then we wandered around for a kebab place but some of the places were either full, had only outdoor seating or didn’t look good enough so we kept walking in the direction of Gare du Nord where Aude and Frost were leaving from and we ...
Polish fries and Russian poker
... listening to my ipod. Then went back to the flat and watched some tv. The girls got back quite late with chocolate and strawberries, lovely! We just sat at the table chatting. Then whenIsrael got back, we decided to play a game of poker. It was quite funny as Anna is really into her poker and so is Israel but they seemed to have slightly different rules (and slightly different ...
Brussels!
... to wake Daniel up and then start repacking all of our random clothes that were hung around the room drying. Fortunately, we were able to get out and leave at the time that I had wanted to. We didn’t have a problem riding to the station, but when we got there, we weren’t able to make a reservation for the train that I had wanted to…which was unfortunate. We weren’t in any rush though so it wasn’t that big of a ...
Merry Christmas Eve...Off to Belgium
... to the local Cathedral for the 11:10pm service to listen to organ music and Christmas singing.
The cathedral was a stunningly beautiful gothic style church decorated in its Christmas finest. We found seats near the front of a packed crowd and settled in for beautiful organ playing and Christmas music (only one of which we recognized). As the mid-night mass was approaching, we ducked out past the camera men and news reporters who apparently record the mass ...


