The Atomium is the Brussels version of the Eiffel tower. It was built for a world fair and is now kind of useless. It has giant metal spheres making up the structure of an iron crystal. We trained there, took some snaps and trained back. We didn't bother going up 9into the tower itself, didn't seem worth it.
Back in the city we started walking on the tour I had planned. Very soon we veared of it too other things around us. A lot of the sights we wanted to see were closed. Either for the day or for the month. Everyone must go away in August.
We saw the stick exchange building. We sat on its steps and ate cheese sammiches with juice. I missed cheese sammiches. We went back to the street with the great comics. We spent a while browsing. I love seeing the comics in all the different languages.
We saw somw of the comic walls. Brussels is really into comics and comic art. There are ´comic walls´ all over thecity with pieces painted by known and un-known artists.
We went to the touristy part of Brussels. We saw the famous Manniken pis – A small stature of a boy whois also a fountain and pisses into the fountain below. There were touristy chocolate shops and snapping camera everywhere.
We went the other way to a frites place that sounded good. Also closed. So we sat at a nearby bar with kriek. We got Lindermans kriek (cherry beer), by far the best cherry beer I´ve ever tried.
We set off again and found the main tourist square, Markt It was walled in old beautiful buildings and churches, plus restaurants and a beer museum. We weren´t in the market for any of those though. we just wanted chips. There was a near lined with greek pita shops just off the square. We went to one and asked for chips. They looked at us like we were mad when we said that we only wanted chips. Then ushered us to a table right in the corner. Ad from there moved us to one side of the table. We felt a little put out,but I didn't mind as long as we got the chips. Josh was fuming.
The chips weren´t too bad. I´ve had better. We walked back to the Markt and found the street with the chocolate shops. We tried tasters of the most amazing truffles before buying a box of contreu chocolates. Very very good.
We found a nice dinner place on our map. Everyone had some sort of pasta,despite wanting to try local Belgian cuisine. We didn't mind, we got more kriek and a local drink called half and half (half wine and half something else).
Back at the hostel we met some Australians who were also going to Pukkelpop a few days later. They seems nice and we said we should meet up at the festival.
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