Yesterday, Sunday August 10th we left France out of the Geneva airport in Switzerland and flew to Brussels, Belgium. Our friends Rob and Stefanie picked us up at the airport and took us back to their home in Kelssel-lo, it's part of a bigger town called Leuven (pronounced Loo-ven).
Our flight to Brussels was so turbulent and I had 2 little boys behind my seat that were yelling and kicking my seat the entire hour long flight. So, when we arrived we relaxed and had a beer and some cheese...showered and freshened up. Then left to go see downtown Leuven and have dinner. Belgium is beautiful! We wish we had more time here! Drinking is huge here. The bars don't close until everyone leaves, which they said is often 8am or so because it's a college town.
This is a picture of the college library. Their college is over 500 years old.
There is a Belgian artist that does weird art like this...it's a beetle on a needle and it's right in front of that beautiful library. Even our Belgian friends think it's weird and don't really get it.
This is a picture of city hall. Pictures truly can't do justice because the detail is just so amazing.
Then we stopped and had dinner at a place called Notre Dame. The portion sizes were so big and for a really good price. I had a very typical Belgian dinner recommended by Stefanie and Rob, it was pastry with chicken and mushrooms in a white gravy with fries. Kevin had Mac and Cheese with ham- it's nothing like American Mac and Cheese, it's amazing! It's really surprised Kevin and I that in France and Belguim if you don't finish your food at a restaurant you do not take it home. They've said that is a very American thing to do. Which is so surprising because things are so expensive here and that just seems so wasteful. Also we've been giggling ever since Scotland because they say how huge American portion sizes are everywhere we go but their portions are the same if not bigger every place we've eaten! :)
Then we went to a bar called The Capital. This bar has 2000 beer choices. I got a banana beer..it smelled like banana bread and tasted like banana juice! It was the perfect dessert :) Kevin had a beer that is known as the best beer in the world. For 1 bottle it was €13. That's very expensive! My beer was only €3. Typically beer here is very cheap. The bar was so cool! The bottom level of the bar was where they store the beer, each beer has a code so when you order you order by the code, for example mine was 1070. The bartender puts the code into his PDA thing and a guy on the bottom level finds the beer and sends it up on a lift wheel/hoist. It is so cool! And there are windows in the floor so you can see the guy below fetching beers. Rob calls him the beer leprechaun. It was a really pretty bar! We enjoyed it.
A picture of the best beer in the world! It actually was very very good!
Then we headed home to sleep because today we are off to Amsterdam. We got a hotel for $97.00, so only €72 to split between the 4 of us. We are excited!
Our walk back to the car:
That's the moon above Rob's head
Leuven police department:
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