Day 2 29/6/08 - Belgium

Antwerp -> Brussels -> London

Highlight

• We started off quite early with a walk around the Grote Markt, the central square which looks like Le Grande Place in Brussels.
• Visited the Onze Lieve Vrouwekathedraal and St-Carolus-Borromeuskerk, which were painted and decorated by Ruben.
• Tried to find the Gay exhibitions but was unsuccessful.
• Started off our shopping at a few sports and outdoor shops. Couldn’t find our Camelbak valve cover, but we did manage to pick up some much needed good sports socks.
• Continue shopping on the high streets, where the shops were open for a special sales event. The main shopping street, Meir, was packed with people all shopping up a storm, so we joined them.
• Walked into almost every stop, but was successful at Jack Jones for some black wool sweaters for Slokky, Vera Moda for nice printed linen skirts, Princess for G-Star pants and a dress from Hampton Bay.
• Couldn’t find anywhere that sells Wii Fit. In fact, everywhere just seems to sell fashion related items and nothing else.
• Tried desperately to find fresh waffle, but had no luck, was even hard to find non-fresh ones. Eventually we managed to go to Belgrufia, which sells pre-made waffles, but because of the huge crowd that turned out, actually had to sell their waffle as they made them, which meant it was extra yummy.
• Grabbed lunch at the canteen style Le Plante, where I proceeded to pile my self-serve soup up with lots of ingredients.
• We shopped until the shops kicked us out, so we didn’t even have time to have a meal, so had to make do with chips.
• Really hot ride home on the Eurostar, laden with all our bags of shopping.

Food

• Goossens breakfast:
  • chocolate bread
  • apple and sultana strudel
  • sultana bun
  • plain bun
• Frittur No 1 on Hoogstraat chips with mayo
• La Plante lunch:
  • Thai chicken soup
  • curried chicken bun
• coffee filled chocolate from sweertvaegher on Groendalstraat 8
• orange peel from sweertvaegher
• Bagulfia waffle with cream
• frites with curried tomato sauce
• tropical smoothie