1.5 days in Brussels

Mannekin Pis

Yayyy it's time to travel! 

I'm always soooo excited to travel especially to new places!

But what I hate is that there's just too many people and it's Easter holidays, tourists from all over the world bla bla bla a total bummer righttt but you just do it anyway!

Since we were on a strict schedule, we NEED to make full use of our time there. 

We departed from Manchester airport at 6.30 am and arrived around 9.50 am (local time in Brussels) using Ryanair (cheap tix we got only 20 pnd pp). 

The mistake we made was that we did not buy the airport shuttle tickets to main city earlier online (my fault, I didn't find the link!), so that could actually save us a lot. Ended up paying 17euro pp vs 10euro online? 

So remember buy your airport shuttle tickets to city center in advance!

Checked in our hotel, (we stayed at Theater Hotel Brussels, was alright but our hotel area is kinda scary at night) and then rusheddddd like maddd back to city center to catch our New Europe Free Walking Tour which is at 11.00 am. 

We were late haha but it's okay you just join them anyway. 

Look at PJ so enthusiastic telling his stories ;p

This tour was gooood! 

It tells you about the history of Brussels (oh no, the history is like blur2 to me now.. i always suck at remembering these stuffs...) anywayyy...tells you about some of the interesting buildings there and you get to kinda familiarize yourself with the streets of Brussels.
Go check them out! 

And of course at the end of the tour, if you think it is good you give them some tips :)

We finished the tour around 2.30 pm and were really hungry at that time. But we decided to walk ourselves to the most. beautiful. park. I have ever seen so far!! 

It is Parc du Cinquantenaire, quite a long walk approx 30 mins towards Jourdan another beautiful area in Brussels full of cafes and supposedly the best frites in Brussels called Maison Antoine which I did not care of when I ate it...

McD's fries macam lg sedap je... hmm...

See.. What did I tell you, beautiful isn't it?

Cafes in Jourdan

After having a full tummy of kebabs we made our way back to our hotel. We were too tired already since we started off very early in the morning. We reached hotel around 6 pm, and took a so called nap... bangun2 je dah pukul 8 pm!

Ok then we headed out for dinner and to Grand Market platz, sooooo prettyyyy at night!! There were people singing.. Everyone was so laid back.. 

See how pretty it is!! I kinda miss this place now.. hmmm...

So that's the end of day ONE! We actually covered a lot in just one day!

Then day 2 begins at 9.00 am, we checked out and made our way to Atomium! We took the metro can you believe that there is no English on the ticket machine! Pandai2 la tekan ye. So we just belasah nasib baik la sampai.. Atomium = that big cube-outlined molecule. ^^V

Look.. Davey and Stuey are so happy ^^

We didn't go in, I think there are museums inside but we're not into that stuff anyway so we opted for Mini Europe instead! Like the name says it's a mini of Europe ^^ Really knowledgeable stuffs they have there! It was pretty cool!

Brussels' Grand Market Platz

Around 12.30 pm we headed back to town and enjoyed the yummiest waffles ever at Maison Dandoy, bought some Belgian chocs and crispy waffles and continued our journey to Amsterdam :)

I miss you Brussels, the next time I go there I will definitely check out Brugges another beautiful city in Belgium.