Grand Place- 21/1/2014
Today our adventure consisted of taking the metro from my house to the Grand Place-the main square in Brussels. Now this may sound like a very easy task to you but when everything is in French it becomes much more difficult. Brenda and I bundeled up to face the 4C (yes they use Celsius, which is 40F) windy weather. Walked 2 blocks to the metro station to face our worst enemy of the day... The metro ticket buying machine. We tried multiple times to buy a round trip ticket. It just did not want to accept our credit card. We finally figured it our and took the metro seven stops to Grand Centre Station. We came up out of the the metro very disoriented and had to ask 2 people to find our way to meet Kellen for lunch. Lunch was at a great cafe. Where they cut a baguette in half and put brie, apples, honey and pine nuts on it! Amazing combination!! Then we walked around the Grand Place taking pics, drooling over the many chocolate shops, and admiring the beautiful lace stores which Brussels is famous for!
On our way home we stopped at a dry-cleaners. Because I loathe ironing Kellen's dress shirts. I tried to ask how much it cost to dry clean one shirt. This lead to him explaining his price system, in French, for about 5 minutes and Brenda and I just smiling and nodding the whole time. We walked our laughing and decided that the only thing we understood was to dry clean one shirt was 3.50 euros... That's about $5! I guess I will learn to like ironing this year! That's all for today!
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