Last friday was a public holiday in Germany and so a friend and I decided to do a long weekend trip to Brussels in Belgium. We arrived on thursday evening in Brussels at the railway station Brussels North when it was raining cats and dogs. After a few minutes walk we arrived at our hotel which was located quite central, so that we were able to reach a lot of interesting places by feet like the Comic museum, the Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts, the Kathedrale St-Michel and of course the Grand Place. Besides some museum visits we did nice sightseeing and a little delicious shopping for fries and chocolate.
On sunday we took a train to Brugge which takes about 1 hour from Brussels and is a really nice little town with impressive buildings and romantic walks. Unfortunately it was raining all day so exploring the city was impressive but also very wet.
On monday it was time to say goodbye to Brussels - at least for my friend because she had a flight, while I needed to take a train (long story). I say “I wanted to” because the belgian public transport was on a strike and there were no trains arriving or leaving Brussels. Not even international ones. My only chance was to take a hotel again for another night and leave on the next day and so I did.