SNewman Goes to Sevilla: Brussels and Amsterdam

Brussels = food. Demasiado comida. The center square is beautiful, lined with gold crusted buildings that house beautiful little chocolate shops. All the surrounding streets are filled with chocolate shops, bars and restaurants, and waffle and frites stands. The chocolate shops all give out free samples, therefore we all completely overdosed on chocolate. We walked all over the city, which isn't too big and found the famous Mannekin Pis, the Peeing Boy statue. We walked out into the African quarter of Brussels and on our way out hit the famous Antique flea market. We also made it to Delirium village, a well known bar area of the city, and went into the Delirium cafe, with countless types of Belgian beers.

From Brussels we did a day trip to Amsterdam. I wish we had more time there, but we made do with what we had. The entire city is gorgeous, everyone travels around on bicycles, I was almost run over a number of times. We went to the Anne Frank house in the morning, a very worthwhile visit. Afterward we went down to the Van Gogh museum, which was a pretty long walk, and when we got the and found out it was 14 euro to enter we decided not to go. Oops. We wandered back into the city center and found the open air flower market, the most awesome cheese store ever, an area called Begijnhof (antiguamente for women who neither wanted to marry nor enter a convent) and walked into the Red Light District.

Chocolate shops all ready for Easter