MISSION: ACCOMPLISHED
DATE: MARCH 19, 2005
PLACE: UNKNOWN CAFE, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
On our way from London to Athens, we had a four-hour layover in Brussels, Belgium, which was the perfect amount of time to find a Guinness.
I will always love Brussels because their airport has storage lockers, and those storage lockers meant I didn’t have to drag my sopping wet clothes all over the country and could instead seek out a Guinness in peace.
Kristen speaks French, and I do not, so she gets 100% of the credit for getting us on a train that went into [what I believe to be] city center.
Do you remember The Gates in Central Park?
(Photo from Mike Rollinger on Flickr)
Brussels seemed to have its own really messed up version going on:
We lovingly dubbed this “Sketch Park,” partially because it was half children’s playground equipment and half seriously deep and dangerous holes that were not even roped off. I respect any place that respects Darwinism like that.
We found a restaurant and ordered a Guinness and mozzarella salad. Nom. Sadly I did not anticipate becoming the Guinness Globetrotter and therefore neglected to note the name of the place. Fail, I know. A place someplace near Sketch Park? I believe it had a spiral staircase inside. (Do you know?)
After our drinks (I also had my first Chimay Blue in Brussels) we wandered around a bit, hopped a train back to the airport, and made our flight to Athens in plenty of time.
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