Brussels was the one place I wanted to go on the whole trip, not for the fantastic sights or great people but simply because of the beer. Having worked in a beer restaurant and tasted so many different beers it's no surprise that I wanted to visit here, home to Delerium Tremens cafe with 2004 different beers. However, unlike my counterparts I knew what 10% can do and so when they started ordering in the pints I simply sat back and watched the drama unfold.
We got to Brussels pretty late so we just caned the bar and stumbled back to the hostel which was literally 5 minutes away fortunately. Although the hostel was far from quiet due to a certain Phil Crawley spewing up his guts all over his bedsheets which I duly cleaned up for him whilst I writhed in pain in bed. True friendship.
The next full day took us until about 3 to rise due to griminal hangovers but we managed to fit in a visit to The Atonium, Brussels most famous modern attraction and a European landmark. It really is immense in its whole architechure as it really is just a giant atom with exhibitions and a restaurant in each little ball atom thingy, yeah I flopped chemistry, evidently. We took a little walk around the surrounding areas and attempted to find Tutankhamun as some poster said he was in town, but to no avail we couldn't find any sign of him.
The last night of Brussels and of Eurotrip 2.0 was spent inevitably in the Delerium cafe but this time we spent time in each floor and funnily enough the Brussels bar crawl bounced in, thank god we didn't go in it, I'm sure you can guess why. Midway through the night we ventured to Grand Place, a nice prestigious open square to spark up Carneys Monte Cristo cigar to mark the trip and show just how far we come. It was rather fitting that since he bought it in Brussels a month prior to the trip that it return there to be smoked by each of us and enjoyed thoroughly just like Eurotrip 2.0
Again, the night ended with someone throwing up, this time it was Chris Loftus and Leo Chen, check out the youtube page for an exclusive video of the former struggling in the toilet. Considering there was one other girl in our room who must have hated us for our antics and one big Purple Aki next door who complained, we were thankful that neither kicked off once more.
Sadly, we were rudely awaken to check out at 11am and so spent the whole day sitting in the sun eating, drinking and waiting for the sad flight back. Homesickness is all mental and I can genuinely say that given the money, I would have carried on travelling, but this has been another amazing trip with people who I consider brothers and next year will definitely be a step up to conquer the wider world.
Watch this space.x
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