Day 35 Brussels, Belgium - Our Bags showed up, Yeah

Tony's View

Yes, the good news today the bags showed up, even though it cost us 250 Euros. The Belgium government charging us a tariff on our own luggage. But the bags are here, and we can go home on Thursday. We headed out to do some sightseeing and you can guess it, first stop a bakery.  Then off to another Cathedral. There are 3 Cathedrals within 15 miles of each other. One in Antwerp, Mechelen and Brussels. Amazing with them being so close and all having a Bishop chair. Today was another beautiful Cathedral. 

They had a cool pulpit with Saint Michael stabbing the serpent on the top of it. 

Beautiful side Altar for Mary also. 

This Cathedral had a lot of Royalty of Belgium tied to it. I took a picture of some of the Kings and Queens. 

We then headed to Notre-Dame des Victoires au Sablon, which is beautiful in its own right. 

We decided to check out the European Union Parliament and other buildings in that area. My blood sugar went low, so we got this picture.

We then went through a park which had sculptures by the comic artist Tintin. Can't say I ever heard of him before, but he must be very famous. He does have some funny sculptures. Here is one about eating ice cream. 

Then we had one that made me think of our Son-in -law Nick, friends Tisha, and Angie, all runners. 🤣🤣

Then one about out golf buddies, Eric and Jerry. I guess I could throw my brother Jerry in it too. 

I have to pick on Wade and the other son-in-law NIck. 

Joan decided to get on the bicycle one more time in the park.

We did get to see the Grand Place, a famous square.

One more church before we went back and started packing. It was called St, Nicholas. 

We went out to eat tonight before our beer experience. We were headed to another Belgium restaurant, but Joan spotted a Mexican restaurant, so we went there instead. 

As you can see, it didn't look that authentic. I sent a picture to our daughter-in-law Linda, and she said that when we come in two weekends, she would take us to Quesos. Jackpot!!!!

We made it to the Beer Experience and the thing I figured out was that Belgium was the first at craft beer as we know it. We had a great time tasting the beer. Joan would take a few sips and I would finish it. Another Jackpot. We only had 3 other people with us, 2 from Mexico and one from Brazil. Of course, Joan asked the two ladies if they knew where Linda was from, and they said yes. They had family from there. 

Here are the five beers we tasted. I could bore you with how each one was brewed, but I will save that for Dan when I see him next.

By the way, they told me some towns that we need to stop in for the Tour de Beer. 👍👍👍

Joan's Extras

Extremely grateful that we got our suitcases! It makes these 2 last days so much easier and relaxed.

Walking back from the beer tasting, we passed Mannekin Pis again, which is just down the street from our Airbnb. It seems like there is always a crowd at that corner whatever the time of day.