Monday the 11th of August, 2008 – Brussels is still good but everything is closed on a Monday.

The hostel that we´d been staying in since the night before went by the name of 2GO4 Quality Hostel.
Despite this, it was actually a pretty cool place. It seemed to be run by three Flemish brothers (the youngest, attractive and charmingly helpful; the middle one even more attractive but snooty; the oldest, a little creepy) and had a big common room with a kitchen, tables, couches and free internets.



We spent the day seeing all the things we had circled in a great ´insiders´ guide to Brussels for young travellers´. When we started the highlights-to-see process, we assumed that we would need two, if not three, days to explore the city. Unfortunately, most of the cool design-y shops and spaces seemed to have closed for August. Nuts to that.



At least it meant that we had finished,tourist-wise, with Brussels and so could make it to Bruges the next day.



We had dinner at a recommended restaurant in the gay district that supposedly ´the boys go to with their mothers before heading out for the night´. We shared an excellent warm goats cheese salad and I had a rather bland, dry mixed vegetable pasta
BUT it did have brussel sprouts in it,
So I can now say that I have sampled brussel sprouts grown and prepared in Brussels.
And that is awesome.