Beer Fears

This is the way that Keith describes the "morning after" anxiety that can occur after a big night out. We had major beer fears last night after we left Nathan at his hotel in Brussels and headed back to work in London after a "big week out" with all of you in Belgium.

Yesterday was actually a great day. When ME dropped us off at the station, we found a vending machine at the train station that sold tubes, oil, and other bike parts! Such a bike friendly area! After an hour long train ride, we had a minor brush with European bureaucracy when we couldn't figure out how to get all of our bikes on the train. It was the classic story of everyone sending us everywhere else...until we circled back to the original folks and they magically took our bikes from us.

We then walked out into the Brussels sunshine to look for Nathan's hotel to drop our stuff...only to get mildly lost and stuck with all our stuff in a serious downpour. We waited out the rain for about 10 minutes and then made it to the hotel, checked out Nathan's cool pod toilet, and then headed out to check out the hood and get some lunch. The neighborhood was really interesting...very artsy, a little bohemian, with a strong Muslim population. We enjoyed our last belgian wafffles and then Jeff ran off to Midi to catch his train (he was literally running down the street).

Then Nathan, Keith, and I took a walk and ended up on the Avenue Louise, the fancy shmancy shopping district. We window shopped and ended up in a Vitra store http://www.vitra.com/nl-be/home/ , which had amazing furniture at outrageous prices and we happily sat our weary butts on everything in the store. Then we went and watched an interesting game of Belgian handball but like baseball that had drawn quite a crowd in the Grand Place (I have googled but can't find any info).

After shopping, we stopped for our last Belgian beer which Nathan treated us to because we were out of Euros (Thank you Nathan!) and picked up our stuff at the hotel and headed off to the train...which is where the beer fears started to settle in.

What an amazing holiday! Thank you all so much for making it really special. We look forward to seeing you again on the next adventure.

Enjoy France! Keith and I have decided to swear off all cheese and ham products for the next few days to let our systems recover.