After working a full day, I went straight from my job to JFK Airport and boarded a flight to Brussels. I had a layover in Dublin. I arrived in Brussels at 9:25 am on April 27, 2012. I don’t sleep on planes, I have never been able to. When I landed, I had been up a number of hours I was way too exhausted to do the math for. Also bonus: when I landed, the clock on my phone was an hour behind. I have no idea why. Someone suggested it was because of daylight savings time. Well don’t phones get the time from a satellite or something? It was so frustrating because I was so exhausted. I could not figure out how to manually do the time. I didn’t want to change the time to another time zone to get it to appear right because what if it auto corrected? Then I wouldn’t know and was looking at some other country’s time zone. I have so many trains to catch this trip. I need to know what time it is! I am so tired please god please AH YES I FIGURED OUT HOW TO MANUALLY DO THE TIME YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHH.
So despite having my first meltdown before even leaving the airport, I wanted to see some of Brussels. I collected my luggage, got my passport stamped, took a train to Brussels Centrale and ditched my luggage in a locker. I was really happy I had Euro coins with me leftover from my last trip so I didn’t have to scrounge for change to do this.
Did I mention I was exhausted? All I wanted was a large iced coffee. Everywhere I went, that’s all I could focus on, never got it.
I walked around Brussels a bit and took pictures. Most of them ended up not coming out. I can see the thumbnails but I get an error when I open them. We like to call this “act like it’s not happening”.
Brussels has a casino that I could not find for the life of me (this is probably best). I was able to find Mannekin Pis though, so that was good.
