I recently got back from a wonderful trip throughout the Benelux Region (Belgium and The Netherlands). My first stop was Brussels, Belgium. A "working" city, there wasn't a huge amount of things to do there, but it was very enjoyable and beautiful. I had the opportunity to visit the oldest brewery in the city called Cantillon. The Cantillon Brewery is family owned and the last natural lambic brewery in the country. Belgium is famous for theie beer, one of the reasons I wanted to go there. Additionally, they are famous for a specific type of beer called lambic. Lambic is the beer with a distinctive flavor: dry and cidery, with a slightly sour aftertaste. I arrived at a great time and was able to see a batch being pumped upstairs into a giant copper cooling bin. The beer will sit here overnight where the natural yeast in the Brussels air will enter the liquid and begin the fermentation process. It is an amazingly unique way to make a great beer.Here I am being a Belgian tourist with waffle and Belgian Beer in hand. Two of the bottles of beer are of the top 100 beers in the world. The Belgian waffles are everywhere and delicious, made with sugar that caramelizes when it is cook, they are amazing.
Here is a famous naked peeing baby statute in Brussels that has over 800 different costumes that he wears.
Here I am visiting the Leopold II Museum, which was basically a collection of African items that were plundered by Leopold II during his visits to Africa. The museum was pretty good, and the grounds of the museum were lovely with well manicured shrubs and grass, fountains, trees, and rivers.
