Bank Holidays are a nice invention. I suppose it is like Labour Day or Memorial Day in America. We made the best of it by tagging Belgium onto the end of a business trip.
Belgium is well known for its chocolate and beer. We found them both to be quite nice:
It was difficult to determine the preferred language: people speak Flemish, Dutch, French, German, and most speak English. Pretty amazing to be honest. At some of the chocolate shoppes, the employees speak seven languages!?
Brussels has a lot of tourists- more than other well known European cities we have visited. We noticed very large tour groups throughout Brussels. Jeryn and Mara were stopped several times because of their blonde hair.
Brussels is also famous for it's peeing statue: Manneken Pis:
Mara wanted her picture with the tourist version of the Manneken. I hope this sign means that it is 1 Euro for a waffle:
Brugge, an hour by train from Brussels, is a beautiful city. We ran into some unfortunate weather (in England, they would say this type of weather was "pants"). It would be a nice city to return to in the future for one of the famous boat rides.
As normal, a holiday in Europe equals a lot of walking. Fortunately the girls are now used to it:) I think we tend to forget that they have to take about 30-40% more steps than we do. According to Fitbit, we walked 23,000 steps - so I guess that would be around 30,000 for the girls (or 11 miles/day). Better than sitting in front of the TV:)
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