Lessons learned:
- Brussels can be quite nice, especially when your expectations are none and you don’t step out from the city center.
- There is not only a peeing boy, but also a girl that pees.
- Antwerpen is nice. Also if you are there with fever.
- You can get big beer for 1 € in Brussels.
- Brussels seems like an dirty french city.
- There is a bar that offers 2500+ different beers. You don’t realize that until you ask for a “real menu list”.
- Belgian frites is made from real potatoes! Did you expect that?
- Atomium closes at 5 pm.
- There is a Balkan shop in Brussels. They also sell Laško, Cedevita, Čokolino, Domaćica, Bronhi, Ajver, Eurokrem and all other delicious things that non-balkan people doesn’t give a shit about. This brings up the question either Slovenia is a balkan country or not.
- Belgian waffles are way better than spanish or catalan one. Sorry Spaniards & Catalans, you have lot of work to do, if you want claim you waffles as the best ones.
- You can drink a lot of belgian beer and there is no hangover next day. But you can get cold and fever. Joke. Cold & fever came from other reason.
Dutch sounds like drank german with occasional hiccups. Norwegian sounds like drank german on ski jumps. - Belgian cheese can be nice award after a vegan month. Not sure how good is compared with Swiss, Dutch or French, might be good just because I was dying of it.
- It’s nice to have family around the Europe. We don’t see that often, but when we do it’s fun.
- Kids grow fast. It might me something in a family as they like to wear two different shoes and there is nothing you can do about, they just point at my socks.
- It’s still freezing in the mornings in late March, while in Barcelona I was playing morning volley all winter in t-shirt. When winter is over, I don’t want to hear of it until the next one.
- You can easily hack 30 mins of free internet at Zaventem airport to enjoy it’s decent connection for free as long as you want.
- Quarter past six does not equal quarter to six. It’s the same by the spanish standard, and “near” by the portuguese. No matter, it’s very wrong at the airport.
- Flashing “2 mins boarding” doesn’t mean that gate is still open.
- If you reach the ticket desk within one hour of your missed flight, even Ryanair will rebook you to the next flight available for 110 € fee. Ryanair is not that bad as I thought.
- Free internet at the airport might be limited for a reason. 🙂
