A Day In Brussels

November 1, 2011: It was a chilly Tuesday morning in Paris and we woke up early at 0500 for our spur-of-the-moment decision to go to Brussels, Belgium. I am way too much excited because I've heard a lot about this place and saw soe pictures online.

Brussels is almost an hour-and-a-half train ride from Paris going east. And our decision to go there is an apt opportunity because we have a tad whole day to enjoy the place.

We took the subway in Paris to bring us to Gare du Nord which is the north train station which is the place where the trains going north of France are being parked. It's just like as big as Gare de Lyon and more modern compared to the classical atmosphere of the latter.

We bought two tickets to Brussels then looked for the train which eventually left ten minutes after we got in. The ride was super speedy fast and we arrived there in Brussels at 1000H, which is almost an hour-and-a-half train ride.

When we got there we immediately looked for the tourism information booth and asked for a recommendation on what to see there. Doreen grabbed some Metro maps because she intended to use the subway instead of the bus.

Brussels is so contemporary and the designs everywhere looks very modern. There were ads on the walls of the subway yet very clean city and people are a tad polite.

First stop was the Atomium at the far end of the subway. We went looking at it and took some pretty good ppictures of it. The Atomium appears like an atom complete with electrons and protons but shaped like a square compared to the spherical shape it is used to introduced in some science books.

Adjacent to the Atomium is the Little Europe. We just went there to eat because I was super hungry that time. We never explored the Little Europe and went up the Atomium because we consider our time golden. We just don't want to spend it unwisely because there's stillmore places for us to see around. I think pictures will suffice what I see.

From there we went back to the subway and went to the opposite area of the town called the financial district. We explored the city of Brussles and enjoyed the buildings and architectures, the churches, the piazzas, the hills, squares, and parks, etc.

There's this square we went with beautiful buildings around it and packed my people. We also went to a fountain in that square boasting a little infant standing holding his winnie and peeing water out from his winnie. It was cute. We also shopped for chocolates, which they were famous off, for my friends way back home as presents.

We keep waling and walking and never mindful of the time when we realized it was already 1600H. Our last stop was the Brussels Cathedral then boom the rain appeared.

There's still more places to cover in Brussels but I can't do it because our time won't permit it anymore. At least I've been to this beautiful place and learned about their confusing cultures. What's more confusing when Dutch and French unite.

Isn't it awestruck...... amazing...... and.... supercalifragilisticespialidocious? Aaah.... whatever! Magnifique! Alas.... this trip doesn't ran out of ideas about cultures. Hehehehe.