One of our travel goals for 2013 is to “See the World with a sense of wonderment“. For me this partially means traveling like a 12 year old. So looking at travel and the world with the fascination that children seem to be so good at. Mundane and practical does not have to mean boring [...]
I am not a foodie! Seriously, no. My tastes are base and simple. I often find having to eat annoying and a lot of stuff is way too fancy for me. I would be just as happy with a beer and a waffle as a meal that takes sentences to explain. Despite all of this, [...]
I make no secret of my interest in doors when traveling. They are one of my favorite subjects to take pictures of. I have hunted doors across Europe from blue doors in Santorini to doors in Spain. What I notice occasionally is that that some doors have really beautiful knockers too. Most modern doors have [...]
The Manneken Pis is quite a famous statue in Brussels, and many also know about Jeanneken Pis. However the least known of the peeing statues in Brussels is the peeing dog, Zinneken Pis. It doesn’t appear to be set up as a fountain like the other two, and no one else was around when we [...]
Ali and I took a few hours to go wandering around Brussels. Actually we were looking for the statue of the peeing dog, but we saw a lot along the way. There are tons of interesting and funny signs in Brussels. We also ended up at a covered market building. Food places around the outside [...]
Brussels and Belgium is known for a great many things. A lot of them are food related. Belgian Chocolate and Belgian Beer are certainly well known, and for good reasons. Even what we call “french fries” actually come from Belgium and called Frites. So we knew when we were headed to Brussels for a few [...]
When Andy and I decided to go to Belgium this summer, we knew we wanted to see the Brussels peeing statues. Manneken Pis is the most famous one, and he was wearing one of his many costumes when we saw him. Many people don’t realize, but there is also a peeing girl and a peeing [...]
In the park across the street from the Royal Palace in Brussels, we found several sculptures of foods the city is famous for. But not just boring sculptures, humorous ones such as this Brussels sprout being carried by a stork. Others included a mussel shell with a waffle inside of it and fries that turned [...]
Brussels wasn’t a city I thought of as having a lot of really old historical structures still standing, but the city surprised me. One of the things we found were pieces of the old city walls still standing in two different places. Things like this really give me a sense of just how long a [...]
While we were in Brussels after seeing the flower carpet from above, we headed to a chocolate store called Zaabär. There we got a chance to take part in a chocolate workshop. Belgium and Brussels have a lot of their identity wrapped up in chocolate and chocolate-making. The most fascinating part of it for me [...]