Day Six (April 17, 2009)

Brussels has absolutely nothing to do in it. Well it does, but not a while lot of interesting things. This morning we walked out of our hostel in the rain and made our way to the Comic Strip Center which is a museum about comic strips. This year is the year of the comic for some reason, I'm not terribly sure why. The museum was kinda cool but there were like two comics I recognized, Tintin and the Smurfs. It was a great place for pictures though because there were a lot of sets like comic backgrounds. One of the greatest things is that since Brussels is the capitol of the European Union the descriptions either had the English translation on them or the receptionist gave me a binder with the English and it was in there. In that case I was actually able to understand everything but most of the actual comics because they were either in Dutch or French. For some reason there was a collection of Czech comics and all of those were actually in English, I don't know why they weren't in Czech but whatever, I was able to understand those. After we finished at the Comic Strip Center we went on a search to find the office of the map company we were using. There we were able to use free internet and figure out where the Chocolate Museum was in Brussels because we couldn't find anything on it. I was right though, there is one in Brussels. I also figured out why it wasn't advertised much, it wasn't that great. We went to it and it didn't take much time. Once we finished that we just took a walk and ended up at Grand Place, which is the most famous square in Brussels. It is lined with some pretty buildings. After the Chocolate Museum we really wanted some chocolate so we went on a search for a chocolatier. We found a cute one and got ourselves some chocolates. I got a raspberry praline, an orange praline, a couple mint pralines, a caramel one, and then I wanted to try something random so I tried a chili pepper one, it was actually pretty good. We also found a store that only sold Belgian beer so we each got one of their fruit beers. I got strawberry and Molly got passionfruit. Unfortunately we didn't think about the fact that we needed a bottle opener so that became a mission later that night. We also went to the supermarket to get other chocolate because we got a tip it was cheapest there. Lastly for dinner we had a Belgian original, Fries! Tomorrow we are going to find Mennekin Pis and walk around.