belgian beers... and other belgian things

the first belgian beer that i tried was 11% and was served at 12°C. it was called kasteel. i chose it randomly. it was comme ci comme ca.

but to back things up
we got to belgium 2 days ago. we stayed in Gent on juliusz's recommendation, which was spot on. Gent is such a cool place, it's all medieval and stuff. as soon as we checked into our bed and breakfast we went straight to the castle there and explored around. it was awesome, i wish i could upload pics of it. then for the rest of the day we just explored and sat on patios when it wasn't raining and enjoyed delicious belgian beers like the one i wrote about already.

we were only in Gent for one night. yesterday we took the train to Brussels, which i keep on calling belgium. ohhh yeah. we are staying in a decent hostel a little ways away but close enough. qfter checking in yesterday we came downtown and got belgian waffles for a snack. i wish that they had those in canada on the street. but then again i wish that they had all of these crazy rando, street foods in canada also, like the french hot dogs in scandinavia. mmmm!

we couldn't go to the ,qin square, the grand place, last night because there was so,e kind of ,edieval fair going on last night there, with horses and people in medieval costumes and stuff. they had a little parade of the, and we danced around with the silly jesters in the street! silly us! we tried watching for a bit but it was a little boring so we left qnd strolled around a little more before retiring for the evening.

today we visited the atomium and stopped off at our favourite belgian vietthai restqurqnt for lunch. lekkar!!

brussels is fun but its a weird mix of international people and tourists and languages. it is the most bilingual (french and dutch) city i have been to. the 2 languages are on everything and no one really see,s to prefer or push one over the other.

i don't know what we are going to do for the rest of the day but i'm sure something fun will co,e along! we are going to london on sunday, and are going to try to see the new harry potter movie there!

that is all for today. hopefully we will be able to post ,ore often so that it doesn't take forever to do an update. sorry for being so verbose everyone.

adios!
simon