Chocolate and waffle dreams

Welcome to me being in Brussels (Belgium)!

I write this lazing comfortably on a gorgeous couch in a beautiful 7 bedroom, massively backyarded house that belongs to friends of ours living here in Belgium.

Nick is upstairs (on our floor) having an afternoon snooze. This is revolutionary as in all the time I have known him he has never once wanted, or needed, an afternoon siesta.

Downstairs the home owner is grating and juicing onion (is this some form of torture?) to include in a lamb kabab recipe that he is going to be cooking for us on his BBQ this evening.

In the room next to me, the other [pregnant] home owner is also having an afternoon snooze (and please note the grating onion home owner just woke up from an afternoon sleep).

Talk about a lazy Saturday.

This morning we woke up at 6.30am to eat brekkie (fasting)... and I think this is where everything went wrong. Coming to Belgium while fasting was our fatal mistake, causing everyone to go sleepy in the arvo in an attempt to wear off the pain of hungrily walking past a gazillion chocolate shops, waffle stalls and bakeries around town.

Brussels really is very beautiful in some areas and it was great to discover the city. There is the beautiful 'Grand Place', a square with buildings dating back to the 1400's, and small cobbled streets with stores and cafe's galore. Unfortunately for us, every second store was a chocolate shop serving FREE chocolate to customers, and every third store was a waffle stand selling warm delicious waffles on this cold day. Please note, there were even scout kids serving free cake in the streets. Needless to say we have stocked up on some goodies to eat later.

Anyway, I don't mean to talk about food so much! But it was so nice to be in a place where food actually looks GREAT (not like the deep fried sausages and fries with mayonnaise in the netherlands!!).

We had a great time wandering the streets and hopping on trains not sure of what direction we were headed in! We stumbled across the famous 'Manneken Pis' ...a small statue of a boy peeing which has become like the mascot of this city. Mmm, interesting...

Okay, enough for now. Time to wake up Nick!