¡Hola! It’s me, Kelsey!
This weekend I traveled to
Brussels and Amsterdam and, what a weekend it was! My adventure began Wednesday
afternoon (el día de Andalucía fue Thursday=> no tenemos clases) at 6. I took
a bus to Madrid with some friends who were also traveling to Brussels and a few
other countries. After the 6 ish hour bus ride to Madrid, we took the metro to
the airport where we began our very cold wait for our 6 am flight. When we
landed in Brussels, the two friends I was travelling with went on their way to
Bruges and I was left to explore the metro in Belgium so that I could get to
the hostel where my other friends, had arrived the night before. Luck was on my
side (this time) because I got to the hostel JUST as Taylor, Maddie, and Aaron
were about to head out and grab breakfast.
We spent the day in Brussels
going to visit the Cathedral St. Michel et Ste. Gudule, Manneken Pis, the Grand
Place, Town Hall, Les Galeries Saint Hubert, and a brewery, Brasserie
Cantillon. We also managed to share French fries, Belgium waffles, and
chocolate. If you don’t know, Manneken Pis is a bronze sculpture that is a
fountain of a little boy peeing. It was made in 1619. There are many legends
behind the sculpture that are pretty funny and mostly focused on finding a
little boy peeing on someone or something. At Brasserie Cantillon, we went on a
tour of the brewery that brews traditional Lambic beers. A Lambic beer is
brewed based off of spontaneous fermentation and has a distinct taste from any
controlled fermentation beers. It was interesting to learn about the importance
of each step in the beer and how they contribute to the unique tastes.
After lots of trouble trying
to buy train tickets online, Taylor and I got tickets for the 6:00 AM train to
Amsterdam on Friday. It is quite complicated to buy anything online here
because most of the time our credit cards don’t work, and the remainder of the
time, the websites don’t work (more on this later). Luckily though, we were
able to find a train in the morning, even though our initially planned 7:50
train might have allowed for more than 4 hours of sleep. Weellllll, after only
one train mistake—we rode one stop past Amsterdam Centraal—we arrived in
AMSTERDAM!!! We met up with our 7 friends who are studying in Florence. Since there were 9 of us, we stayed in a
great hotel that overlooked Amsterdam and was quite cheap when split between
us. Immediately, it was off to site see.
HAY MÁS. Lo continuaré pronto.
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