Instead of heading to the coast with Tina and Chelsa, I ended up catching the 10 am train to Brussels/Bruxelles with 12 other Erasmus (exchange) students. It was an absolute blast. For the first half of the day we stayed in a large group and explored le Grand Place, a chocolate museum, visited the Manneken Pis, tried waffles, and wandered around. For the second half of the day we split up into two groups: those that wanted to see the Mini Europe display and those that wanted to go to this enormous inner city park. I went with the Mini Europe display group. I figured it is probably next to impossible to impress me with fake nature after living beside Fish Creek Park in Calgary and the Rocky Mountains for my whole life and the Polish kids really wanted to see Mini-Europe. If they were dead set on it, I concluded there was probably a very good reason why. After lots of semi-lost wandering and metro taking (which was an adventure in itself - there would've been no doubts to anyone that we were tourists!), we finally found Mini-Europe and also the famous landmark of the Atomium. I took an absolutely copious amount of pictures. Most of the interesting tidbits and such are in the captions so have a look through. When I get copies of the group pictures that ended up on other peoples' cameras, I'll post them up too :)
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See if you can name any of the monuments!
Also, I'm just going to throw it out there that it was UNBELIEVABLY hot. Jeans were not a smart decision!
Love you all!
Jacqueline
Edit (09/16): Here's one of the group pictures in front of the Atomium
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| Left to Right: Kevin, Marcin, me, Magdalena, Ewelina, Ewa |
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