I went to Brussels for a long weekend on May 26th. My friend Sharon had organized a music festival with the unique name of "Suicide Twist"
Long weekend in Brussels
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I took the Eurostar from London Waterloo to "Gare Midi". When I got to Brussels, I could not figure out which way to go on the tram to get to the hotel. The tram is like a subway in that is runs underground in central Brussels and above ground elsewhere. I kept looking at the signs to make sense of the directions. I walked up and down different platforms getting no where. When I did chose a tram, it was going the wrong way. The funny thing is the hotel is walking distance from the train station; I did not have a sense of distance in Brussels at the time.
The weather was wet and grey for most of my stay; I thought this is about the same as London. One needed to have an umbrella at the ready at all times.
After checking into the hotel, I went for a quick bite to eat and I pleased myself being able to speak enough French to order food and communicate. Being from Canada, I had years of remedial French buried deep in my brain and given a chance it would come out.
I went along the venue for the festival. I got say hi to Sharon; she was very busy running things so we did not get much chance to talk over the festival but still it was good to see her; it has been a few years since we last met up; we had meet years ago on a trip to Italy when I went to Lounge music festival. And as I expected, there was people from Italy at the festival like Alessandro Casella. Alessandro is someone I got to know through Montefiori Cocktail.