Belgium
Originally published at Ted the Penguin. Please leave any comments there.
Things that I noticed/learned in Brussels.
- It’s very easy to spend a lot of money on chocolate.
- Pretty girl chocolatiers will give you free chocolate if you flirt with them.
- They sell waffles everywhere. Even in the subway.
- It’s entirely too easy to accidently ride the subway for free.
- I don’t know French or Dutch, and it’s a problem.
- People here speak Freutcish, and it’s also a problem. (French-Dutch-English)
- Internet is very expensive and very slow.
- It rains a lot.
- The drivers in Belgium are far far worse than anything I’ve ever seen in the US. With one exception, everyone can park straight here.
- The roads were designed by a drunk Scotsman.
- The dollar is very very weak against the euro.
- Soda without corn syrup is fantastic. (not new, just restating)
- Soda is very expensive.
- Beer is very cheap. And strong.
- People protest everything in Brussels. And they’re creative about it too. Don’t like the tax on tomatoes? Farmer Joe brings his tomatoes to the street outside Parliament and throws them at birds roosting on the building. Picket signs are old news.
- A child saved the city by taking a piss and now they have statues of him everywhere.
- It rains a lot.