04-09 Apr: Luxembourg/Belgium (4)

09 Apr>> THIS IS ANTWERP (:

This was the last day of our trip, and there was basically nothing much to do there besides shopping. But guess what, it was Easter Monday and all the shops were closed! Yay. I guess we were just there on the wrong day. So once again, we just walked around, and then decided that we shall return home early, YAY!

How we love reflective surfaces haha.

Kids Easter Party. The Easter bunny even hopped up to us to give us chocolate eggs haha.

The mega shopping and high fashion street where all the shops were closed?! Anyway, I believe the street could span almost 1km!

And of course, everybody loves the sun (: This pic was taken at noon by the way. Who on earth does this in Sg?

Ok yay, THE END!

04-09 Apr: Luxembourg/Belgium (3)

08 Apr>> THIS IS BRUGES (:

I somehow liked Bruges a lot, I guess it was a very refreshing change from Brussels. Maybe cos it kinda looked similar to Delft… similar to home. I guess I just wanted to go home. Travelling can really be very tiring.

We took it easy in Bruges. Didn’t felt like navigating with the map much. So we just signed up for The Chocolate Walk where we just went round the city centre collecting chocolates from various shops to taste. And on the way, we just snapped a few pics. That was about it. And oh, we also went to the chocolate museum. Yea, so it was very much a chocolatey day. Chocolate is one of the main highlights of Belgium anyway haha.

Choco-Story – the Chocolate Museum.
Chocolate lovers, I’m sure you would wanna know the answer to the following haha.

… haha well, I guess this doesn’t exactly help. Can’t they just simply replace the answer with “Of course, it makes you fat!!!”

To be continued…again.

04-09 Apr: Luxembourg/Belgium (2)

Moving on to Belgium…

06-07 Apr>> THIS IS BRUSSELS (:

The Brussels Town Hall

The Grand Place

Manneken Pis. The famous peeing boy of Belgium. Don’t even know how it came about.

Ouch.

Brussels Waffles. Shiok! But mega ex.

Galeries Royales St Hubert

The pulpit in the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula

The Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art. Now I know Tintin and the Smurfs originated in Belgium.

Which of these was your favourite? Haha.

Muziek Instrumenten Museum

The Mont des Arts

The Atomium. This structure represents an iron crystal, magnified 165 billion times!

Inside the Atomium.

Brasserie Cantillon – A tradition family-run brewery.

Cheers! Having a taste of the Brussels beer – gueuze. It is a blend of lambic beers which has the dryness and sparkle of a good champagne. A rather unique taste, I must say.

Ok, that’s about it for Brussels. Didn’t quite like that place actually. Maybe I was just bored of seeing buildings after buildings which are all of the same architectural style.

To be continued…

04-09 Apr: Luxembourg/Belgium

This period’s supposed to be the exam week followed by Easter hols, so we decided to take the opportunity to make our first trip outta the Netherlands to Luxembourg and Belgium. Ok, wont talk much, so just look at the pics (:

04-05 Apr>> THIS IS LUXEMBOURG (:

The Casemates of a fortified castle.

Rue du Marche aux Herbes. Palais Grand-Ducal on the right.

Vianden, a small medieval town in the Ardennes.

The Castle of Vianden. Picture totally ruined by the crane.

From the top of the castle.

What on earth went through my head when my head went through.

Self-entertainment (:

I thank God for my crazy friends.

Keep seeing many of these creatures (I believe they are antelopes?) in Luxembourg. I think its for promoting the region as a European capital of culture.

Quick Burger. This picture forever makes me hungry.

The cleanest, the newest, the BEST hostel we’ve stayed in so far.

All in all, Luxembourg is a very beautiful city with magnificent landscape. But its really small (populated with 0.5 million people), so you can finish it in a day. Anyway, just a side, I found SUVs and station wagons characteristic of Luxembourg. I guess the people really need more powerful vehicles to conquer the steep slopes.

Next up: BELGIUM.
To be continued…