Over the last couple of days we've fit so much in we're both exhausted. On Thursday we drove from Brugge to Brussels which was quite an experience. Up until then, the TomTom (Sat Nav for the van) we're using had been brilliant.... This all changed so quickly on Thursday afternoon. As we were getting close to Brussels, we asked Tom to tell us where the closest camping spot to the city is. This, to our surprise, bought up a camping spot right in the middle of the city... GREAT! So we headed to our new found prime camping spot which was incredibly difficult to get to as we were winding around the coble stone streets of inner city Brussels. We at one stage crossed a round-a-bout that looked a lot like a smaller version of the Champs Elysees roundabout in Paris, then to our surprise they decided to throw a tram into the mix which was heading directly for poor Callum. Fortunately we were able to pull up in a car park and ring the "Camp Ground" to see where they were....... It was a camping SHOP! TomTom proceeded to continue this trick once more with us. After this, we managed to contact a real camp ground and get to our destination (10KM from the city).
Thursday night we met up with Laurence and Gautier (relatives of Andrew's) at their houseand met their beautiful children, we then proceeded to Uncle Alexanders house which is a lovely big home in a beautiful leafy suburb. Here we met more family and shared a special local meal of white asparagus with egg and butter sauce with some beautiful wines which was amazing. It was a very memorable night and an absolute delight to meet some of our extended family.
On Friday Laurence and Gautier were kind enough to give us a tour of Brussels. We met early in the morning and started on our big walk around this beautiful city. It was great to have some local knowledge of the best places to go. We saw so many beautiful places and ate some amazing food including more waffles, and some local chocolate. After they left us for the day, Jamie insisted that we go and see the new "Sex and the City" movie, which she loved! She was so excited that we could watch the movie in english. After the movie we went to a local pub to have a couple of beers to wind down. It ended up being a rather late night and a few more than a couple of beers (don't worry mum, we didn't get "shitfaced") as we met some locals and stayed out with them.
So we're off to the pub again this afternoon to watch Stozer clean up the French Open, then off to Amsterdam tomorrow! Good times!
Cheers,
A&J
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- Andrew and Jamie Griffioen
- Andrew and Jamie are a married couple from Brisbane, Australia. We have embarked on an overseas adventure for 6 months leaving in April and returning in October. We plan to cover the UK and a lot of Europe. To see more details, check out our posts below.
So Brussel provided challenges for you guys as well hey! It seems you guys are having similar good times to us - even when you have a GPS - ha ha. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteUh oh... no news for nearly a week eh, no doubt you two are still stuck in some coffee shop in Amsterdam trying to find the door to the great outside. ;) Oh we forgot to thank you guys for the ipod thingy... very cool thanks. We bought ourselves a digital SLR yesterday after 5 years of umming and ahhhhhhing (actually Fiona bought it whilst I was still ummmming). Takes a beautiful shot and we are only just scraping the surface so far. We are taking Daisy on her first holiday this monday... off to sunny YAMMMMMBA for the week.
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