36 hours later we are in Brussels!
We started in Jakarta yesterday, flying to Doha for a short layover before arriving in Amsterdam.
We qued in the immigration for close to two hours and then hung out in the airport for another hour, taking pictures of each other and drinking hot cocoa instead of buying the train tickets to Brussels, which meant we had to stand up for another two hours inside a pack train cart.
Finally, we reached Brussels early evening, not knowing what time it was supposed to be for us anymore.
Our Airbnb, an excellent two-bedroom apartment in the Bergstraat neighbourhood, overlooked a lovely street with the same name. After putting in the luggage, we decided to venture out but not before putting on my first trench coat and feeling like I was Olivia Pope from Scandal.
Again, not knowing what time it was, whether we were hungry or sleepy or just jet legged, we walked around the town centre or what looked like a town centre and took tons of pictures.
We also had Belgian fries (which I err.. don’t know whether I liked) and Belgian waffles, which I loved.
On the way back to the Airbnb, I finally told my cousins that I had kept a travel blog – this blog. I don’t usually tell people IRL about the blog, but the moment appeared, and I felt inclined to do so.
Soon after, we retrieved back to our bedrooms. My cousin read and commented on my blog while I unpacked and repacked my kitchen sink backpack.
Tomorrow we have a whole day itinerary in Brussels planned by Astrid, a friend of my cousin who is also an Indonesian living in Brussels (I am jealous!). For someone who usually prepares the itinerary to the T, it will be a go-with-the-flow day for me, and I am super looking forward to it.
Brussels Travel List
Saying that, I do come with my own Brussels Travel List. It includes Grand Palace, Drink Godiva hot chocolate, eat frits and waffles at Fritland/frit flagey order Fritland spicy sauce/local pickle sauce, Tin Tin street art,Juplier/vedett beer, Chocolate shop la cure gourmande/Leonidas, Eat at Arcadi cafe and ice cream at Capoue,Moeder Lambic top 10 bars in the world, Manneken pis/jeannenke/zinneken pis, Notre dame du sablon (gotchin church), Le sablon (market) 9-1PM Sunday, and eat at Le Perroquet, Belgian Waffles, Central station and side by side churches, Cafe Belga, FIn de siecle best Belgian restaurant, Place du jue de balle Flea market, Statue of Everardt serclaes for wish-granting, the aroma cafe shop, Le mont dos art (during sunset), Peirre Ledent’s macaroons.
Meanwhile, welterusten vanuit Belgie!
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