Sat, 29 Dec 2007
tour 02
as planned we took tour two as suggested by our bruxelles guide.
this tour started at the most famous citizen of bruxelles,
namely "manequin pis", the little pissing boy. no idea why it's
so famous, but our guide said it has over 600 costumes for all
kind of occassions. and today it was dressed up in a strange
costume too, guess it was some kind of christmas dress? so we
paid the boy a visit just as everyone does, and i'm sure many
others were asking themselves the same question i was asking
myself: wtf is this all about? oh well, but we are kind and nice
tourists, so we've been there. manequin pis: done. afterwards we
went on passing by the "palais de justice", a really beautiful
old building surrounded by run down and abandoned houses with
broken windows and loads of waste in front of it - pretty
strange scenery there.
next stop was again "grand'place", again pretty crowded and full
of life. near there we saw the first cat in bruxelles. a talk-
ative red tomcat. very cute and looking for someone to pet him -
so lovely. additionally we went into a church that was along our
tour. actually we don't know which one exactly it was or what it
was called.
after that we took a break from our tour again and did another
shopping trip through the shopping malls and streets of
bruxelles. again we found pretty cool shops with all kind of
wonderful stuff. after that i tried some burgers at "quick", the
french (and belgian) version of mc donalds. the burgers actually
looked and tasted just like the ones from mcdonalds, but it's a
bit cheaper. then we continued our tour. next stop was "cathe-
drale st. michel". a quite big cathedral surrounded by some sky-
scrapers and modern buildings, mostly banks and the like.
taking the long tour made us pretty tired, so we went home,
passing by "place de la bourse" again, but this time there were
loads of projections on the building.
at the hotel we spent the rest of the evening watching tv series
and movies in the original version with flemish subtitles.
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