Arrived in the evening and left in the following afternoon, so didn't have much time in Brussels. Fortunately our hotel (Marriott too but the rooms are a little old) was just a 2 mins' walk to the Grand Place.
Touristy yes, but at least we can now say we've been there! A pity we were 3 days too early for the 14th Brussels' Flower Carpet, which was to be held on 13th-15th August. Otherwise it would have looked like this:
[source: http://www.planetware.com/picture/brussels-grand-place-grote-markt-b-be003.htm]
Up side of a touristy area (esp if you haven't done much research on your destination) is that you just might discover something interesting simply by following the tourists! So yeah, we spotted a group walking excitedly to somewhere.. Since they walked with such purpose, we decided to follow suit. This is what we found:
Lastly, dinner at a reasonably priced Japanese place just across the street from the hotel. Nice "Japanese-style carpaccio" as they call it & rather fresh sashimi.
Name: Anata
Location: Boulevard Anspach, 74, Brussels 1000, Belgium
Expenditure: 50€
Ended our trip at a low. Story goes like this: Man walked near the car. He suddenly bent down. S heard/felt a slight bump. She shrugged and drove off. 1 second later, tyre punctured! Man no. 2 suddenly appeared and offered help to change tyre. !!! What a ploy :( Thank goodness S rejected since she was near the hotel already. Sigh. Had to change to spare tyre (half the size of the normal one). Afraid that it won't be able to take the road well, we had to drive back to Paris at 80km/h instead of the usual 130! Took us a good 6 hours instead of 3+ to get home. How can some people be so evvviiilllllll....
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