My First Euro Trip: Belgium

For a number of times, I almost had the chance to see Europe but this year it finally came true.  For two weeks, my current employer Besix sent me to our mother office in the city of Brussels in the Flemish side of Brussels in Western Europe. 

 

From Manila, I flew into town with a colleague via KLM Royal Dutch Airlines with a connecting flight through Schipol Amsterdam Airport in the Netherlands after a 14hour-long flight.   Around 9:30pm we arrived in Brussels and took a taxi to get us to our hotel at the B Apart Hotels in Ambiorix area.  

Upon my arrival in my hotel room, the first thing I did was setup my tripod and camera so that I can have a photo with the view outside my window.  The hotel is located near a circular park where streets that connect to it looked very European with their bricked facade, big windows and pointed roofs.  It was a beautiful sight.  Anyways, one unusual thing that I found out upon arrival is that there were no one in the reception table at that time of the day and we had to enter the hotel using a code and get our keys from a locker using a code.

During this trip, aside from going to office to attend with my professional duties with my company, I had the opportunity to see places around Brussels and driving around other cities like Leuven, Antwerp, Bruges, and next weekend we plan to see Amsterdam.  

Being in Belgium is quite an experience with its cold weather in this autumn period where it goes as low as 6 degrees Celcius, also having most shows in the television is in Dutch, and the unusual TV shows around 1 to 4am.  They have shows that is like home TV shopping where women offer intimate favors.

Anyways, in my next posts I'll put into detail the places I've seen during this first time trip. Aside from Brussels, I've been to Leuven, Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam.