Brussels (15. - 16. 6. 2015)

- my first very alone trip ever (I guess)
- and it went great: I found my bus; I only got lost slightly and only a several times; I managed to meet up with Aneta when she finished at work (-> I had a place to sleep) and I had a tun of fun
- also, I tried to be a typical tourist and took a tun of pictures (the ones here are a selection from a selection from a selection)
- hooray to megabus and very very low budget trips with tickets for one euro and sandwiches in the backpack for two days

- It must be SO confusing to live in a bilingual city, never knowing who is going to understand you and who´s not. Especially with such different languages as French and Dutch are.

- note to myself for the future: never believe the weather forecast (or maybe it´s just Belgium - April weather in June, going from hot hot sunny to I-am-never-going-anywhere-without-a-jacket-ever-again about back and forth about a hundred times a day)

Grand-Place

one of the many many beautiful parks in Brussels

an astronomical clock, I suppose? (the music from it was really bad though)

The capital city of Europe.

Not the best picture of me but definitely the most Belgian one. A waffle and the peeing boy. Who is really really really small. Even when they tell you to expect him to be smaller than you expect, you don´t.

And he has a hidden secret peeing sister. A very nice Brussel´s girl saw a lost look on my face (I usually have that when trying to figure out maps) and not only did she helped me find myself but also told me about this. (It took me about an hour to find her in this smallest street in the city but I did and I got to see other parts of Brussel as a bonus while looking for her.)

European Parliament. So many enormous and monumental buildings in this "European" area.

(It felt like they decided to repair EVERYTHING in Brussels in those two days.)

A random story from another day (trip to Bonn): I was trying to find out how the big yellow thing is called and a Polish friend said "žuraw", which is the Polish name, which I didn´t know and thought (for real) that he said "giraffe" which I find very fitting and I think everybody should start using this name for this (whatever its real name is).

thank you, very helpful.

Typical buildings of Brussels´s streets.