Just came back from my first Europe trip since I've been here, and all I can say its been so fun its tiring. I didn't know there was such a thing as having so much fun till you actually get sick of it and want to just sleep, but wow, it actually happens. Lol. When I reached my hall from London, I was so tired I couldn't think of anything but sleep. It will probably take quite a few days before I'm able to function normally again. Wonder how the hell I'm going to survive the Easter break.
But yeah its been crazy fun. Don't have pictures yet because I very cleverly forgot to bring a charger for my camera, and it promptly died on me the second day while I was in Ghent, and now I'm still charging the battery trying to resuscitate it. Took out like half the fun for me out of the trip because most of the fun is really in the camwhoring and taking stupid pictures, and using your handphone is a poor substitute. Even that ran out of battery on the 3rd day, so it was really happiness.
But Belgium is really a charming little place to visit, if only because it is good at four things. Beer, waffles, chocolate and fries. Actually I don't even know why they are supposedly good at fries. Fries are fries, and no matter how you fry them, they are still fries. There isn't really a real distinction between fries when you reach a certain level, read "not soggy or cold". Anyway, every stall there claims to sell the "Best Frites in Belgium", so much that after awhile the claim becomes pretty nonsense and no one really buys it anymore.
But the Belgians are damn awesome at beer, waffles and chocolate. They have like hundreds of types of just beer, like fruit beers, light beers, dark beers, but the real star of the lot for me has to be the fruit beers, because I've tasted other light/dark beers that were good, but not a fruit beer. They are really good at waffles too, especially with Nutella. Nutella is essentially fat dressing in a delicious hazelnut sauce, the kind that its so good it feels alright to sin. Not that its a problem for me, which makes it even better.
As for chocolates, I'm about to find out tomorrow if there is a real difference between "mid-range" Leonidas chocolates (mid-range being relative in terms of price) and the outrageously expensive "Wittamer" ones. I honestly don't think I'm skilled enough to be able to taste the subtle nuances that would distinguish chocolates at such a level, but maybe that's just my pocket talking after a huge hole got burnt in it. The biggest chocolate regret of this trip is probably not having stepped into the Pierre Marcolini chocolatier, because the shop looked like a designer boutique, but perhaps that was a blessing in disguise because I wouldn't have had enough money to spend there anyway.
Alright enough nattering around here. The pictures will be up soon. Maybe by the end of the week. LOL. Damn tired and lazy, and I don't have half my pictures.