This is a continuation of our first holiday to Belgium while living in the UK. This is all about Brussels!
It’s the last one in the Belgium series.
Before traveling to Ghent on Sunday (2 September), we had registered for a “make your own chocolate workshop” in Brussels. The meet up spot was in Town Hall, and it was crowded, as expected. Many of the buildings had trimmings of gold, and the sun hitting the building made it a lovely view. Our tour guide finally came for us and we began the class.
If you go to Brussels, this is definitely something I would recommend. It takes a few hours, but you get to learn how chocolate is made and actually make your own. It was so much fun, and we ate so much chocolate that we kind of got turned off of chocolate for the remainder of the trip! As you can see from the picture, we really had a blast. We made truffles, or chocolates that have a hard shell but a softer inside. We did have one scary moment when the wall started to fall apart, but I swear we had nothing to do with that haha.
We went back to Brussels on Monday (3 September), but by train this time! We traveled the city and tried to hit as many touristy spots as possible. We saw all three of the peeing statues: The Manneken Pis statue (the little boy), Jeanneke-Pis (the little girl), and the Zinneke Pis (the dog). I think I can speak for everyone when I say I was disappointed with the famous little boy. All the statues in the store and references made it seem like it was such a large statue! It was all of 1.5 feet tall, and it was dressed up in clothes for the weekend. What a drag.
We also took another class, the “Waffle Workshop”! Everyone knows that Belgium is known for waffles and chocolate, and we had a ton. We (Gian, Davoo, and I) ate like 6 waffles each. I even got the recipe for them, so I hope you guys enjoy it!
The last day we had some extra time, so we went to the Atomium which I wasn’t too impressed by. I will admit that we didn’t go inside, but it just didn’t seem too appealing. We took some photos outside of it and then walked a nearby trail. We got some cool pictures on the trail including me doing a handstand on some very wet grass on a timed camera.