When mum suggested a pre Christmas holiday back in November I jumped at the chance. What followed was a few days looking around European Christmas markets (they serve champagne and cocktails on their stalls), sampling Belgian beers, a Christmas parade which started out looking like a series of transit vans covered in LED lights and a Lego art exhibition. I will say this, Belgian food is awesome. If I lived in Brussels I would weigh approximately 20 stone from all of the amazing food, wine and beer available everywhere. The smell of the shops and market stalls just made me hungry and I felt permanently sleepy from the smell of mulled wine and other things in the air.
We did however, burn a good few calories ice skating. My Dad, who spent his teenage years at the local ice rink, put me completely to shame.
You can’t leave Belgium without trying the local beer. Its not allowed.
Beef carpaccio
Salmony pasta
Guinea fowl
Duck terrine
An old gargoyle
Cheese!!
You can see where I get it all from
This place is Harry Potteresque
Chocolate olive?
Iconic statue
Nativity
Des biscuits
Church
Patisserie
More cake
Opera cakes
Mumsy
Belgian waffle
It’d be rude not to dig in
Meat!
I loved this carousel
We caught the same 5 minutes of this light show every night
More beer
Moules
The infamous carousel
Lego art
More lego art
I have to sneak up on him a lot for photos
Cocktail darling?
Frite van
Matching smiles
Decorations
What a pro
A woman who spent her formative years rollerskating around
Mulled wine (I needed to recover from a near miss ice skate to my face)