So, it’s been a while since my last post and if anyone reading this has been hanging on the edge wondering what’s happening with us, I apologize. Everything’s great! We’re still here at Bravo Base relaxing and enjoying the whole idea of waking up and having nothing to do but whatever we want to. Every day we’ve been walking, exploring the city and getting to know our way around and every day we find out something else that’s cool about Brussels. I’d have to say so far, the highlight has been our two trips to the fantastic 3 Founteinen brewery. They do Lambic, gueuze and kriek beer and it’s the best I’ve ever had. They’re the only ones who use open air fermentation, using the yeast that’s native to this region that’s in the air. And as good as the beer is Armand and Lydie are even better people. We sat, Lisa, me, Justin, Stef, Dorie, Phil, James, Armand and Lydie and talked and tasted the beer for a few hours. Phil did a photo shoot with Lisa for the brewery and then we went to dinner where the food was great. They even had 3 founteinen gueuze and their zweit beer too. Can’t say enough how good a time we had and I really want to thank Dorie and Phil and Armand and Lydie for letting us into this fabulous circle.

The day before our friends in Grand Square Dance, Dimitri, Stef and Elena drove up from France and hung out. They hadn’t been to Brussels before so we showed them what we thought were the hot points and had beers at the two Delirium bars downtown. In between we ate a place that the waitress suggested and we got lucky again. The food was great. I had a bucket of Mussels in garlic sauce and a glass of white wine. mmmmmm mmmmmm!

The sun actually broke through for a while yesterday and the day before, which was great because the weather has been pretty lame otherwise. It’s been cloudy and raining off and on just about the whole time. Not cold but even when it’s not raining we’re hesitant to go for a walk because the rain can hit at any time. Yesterday was sunny just about all day and then around 5 (just as we were getting ready to go to the brewery) the sky went black and it POURED!

We discovered another great restaurant, Au Bon Bol. It’s a noodle house that makes it’s own noodles. You can watch them do it in the front window and it’s pretty interesting to watch the process because you think he’s going to put the dough through some kind of strainer or something to get them the right shape, but he doesn’t. He just keeps folding them and spinning them until at some point he’s standing there with a handful of soup noodles. It’s cool and it ends up tasting great too. Lisa and I both had soup, hers was beef, mine was seafood and it was very tasty.

So we’re still having a wonderful time even though I think I’m about ready to go home. We’ve been away for a long time and it’s starting to sink in a little bit.

cheers.

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