Our flight was at 10ish, but because we stayed at Treviso, we needed to get up as early as possible to get to Marcopolo airport. It's hellish to get train at such wee hour. Lesson learnt. The train, though according to the trenitalia website and schedule at the board at the station showed xxx time, they never showed up! In the end we wasted so much time and finally, fortunate for us there's a shuttle bus that went to Marcopolo! Phewwwww! It cost us 7 Euro each.
We arrived just in time. The queue for RyanAir was long but at least it's fast moving. As many of you will have probably known, traveling by RyanAir means leaving no loophole for them to dig out money from you. Make sure that your luggages aren't too big or too heavy (please refer to the baggage size requirement) and also no extra carry-on at all. Umbrella? Forget it! They're real strict that even before we boarded into the plane, they carried out the measurement thing again to measure everyone's carry-on. So if u're thinking u can run away from the check-in desk, it doesn't guarantee u anything really.
The pilot was very funny... I still remember how he told the passengers to turn off everything electrical, including "sexy toys"... heeheehee. It's pretty good flight we had, which took us about 2 hours or so to reach Brussels Charleroi airport.
Arriving in Brussels, the first thing that greeted us was the super cold weather! I was clearly not prepared for that. We packed really light, so expect no warm jacket in there! So i had to wrap myself with literally everything from my baggage, which resulted me into an indescribable piece of sh*t. Haha. We took the shuttle bus Charleroi to go to Brussels Midi station. The bus ticket cost us 13 Euro each and took us probably 1 hour. But well it's a pretty decent ride.
Fortunately we stayed nearby the Brussels Midi station so we only had to walk from there to our rented apartment. On our way, we bought Liege waffle along the way from a vendor machine and had it to fill our stomach a bit.
Our apartment was an amazing place, really. It's a loft that's greatly taken care of. We stayed with one of the hosts, Peter and he's really such a friendly guy. He made us tea the moment we just arrived. We chitchat at his little garden and then we made a move out to the city. First stop: THE FRITES! I was kind of skeptical when they said the Belgian fries was something i MUST try. I mean, come on, how could it ever be so different? We paid 3.5 Euro and our perspective towards Frites/fries just changed! :D
And then of course we went to the Grand Place area... visited the Chocolate museum (ticket cost 5.5 Euro each), watched the buskers on the street (they're seriously amazing performers!), saw the Mannekin Piss, tasted the escargot soup (OMG I MISS THIS SO MUCH), rented the bike...
I miss Brussels, I really do. It's really unique and pretty in its own way. Let these pictures tell the story, ok?
For dinner, we had another round of Chinese food that cost 17 Euro for us both. Really just couldn't resist it! :D and then went on to try the real deal Belgian beer. Belgian beer is more sour than normal beer, still prefer the normal one though :) It cost us 7 Euro for both to have the beers.
And then we went back to Grand Place and I bought some pralines from Neuhaus. The real deal. Ahhh... :)
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