Our first stop on Spring Break: Brussels, March 25

Friday-March 25 I thought I would get a head start on the blog since I don't know when I'll have Internet :) We traveled most of yesterday. We took a bus to Santander, about an hour and a half from Bilbao, and then flew Ryanair to Brussels. The flight itself was an experience, b/c Grace and I are sharing a luggage, and we kept having to rearrange things in order to make the weight requirements. But we did it lol, and then we were off. We finally touched down around 10 and began to search for our hostel. It took us a while to figure out the metro/tram situation. When we found our hostel though the people were still there to let us in and were really nice. This place is amazing compared to Salamanca's hostel.

We're sharing a hostel with 9 other people. We felt bad coming in so late but there was nothing we could do. A lot of the people left this morning, but we've had a few newcomers.

The best parts of the day were eating a delicious chocolate mousse covered in white chocolate small piece of chocolate. Absolutely incredible. And then the waffle I ate that had whip cream, strawberries, and chocolate. Absolutely incredible. :) They have a lot of variety.


We went to their Gran Place area...I believe the name was... They have their Town Hall there (that looked like a Cathedral-photo below on left). The original Godiva was there as well. The buildings are all beautiful there. We also saw the statute of the little boy peeing, it's a huge deal here and there are souvenirs for it everywhere (photo below on right). They call him squirt in the tour book lol. We also saw the shopping mall (there are chocolate shops everywhere). We saw the European Commission and tried to tour the European Parliament but we came 1 out of the 2 days the members meet and they don't give tours. We also were able to see the Palace of Justice, the Royal Palace, and the Cathedral. We visited a huge park with a beautiful arch in it. It was blue skies most the day and rained for only a little bit in the afternoon. It stopped in time to eat waffles though! Yum!