Travelling to Brussels

My friend Jen and I were bored during the school holidays and decided to book a trip to Brussels for the next day. We travelled via train from Lille Europe and it took around 40 minutes.

Our first impressions were good, although the weather was horrendous, the buildings were all beautiful and our hotel was nice and pretty central.

After it stopped pouring with rain, we headed into the town centre. Grand Place was stunning and as we headed further and further into the town centre, we found streets filled with shops and ended up spending quite a lot of money... Oops!

As we headed back, Grand Place was lit up with red lights and we could see the Hard Rock Cafe, so we decided to go there for tea.

After the Hard Rock Cafe, we wandered the streets for a while to find somewhere to have drinks, but we couldn't find the main night-life areas.

We had heard that Brussels has amazing bars and clubs, but we couldn't find any of those things and not many people were out and about, so we went back to the hotel.

The next morning we woke up and checked out then headed to the Belgian Chocolate shops.

We got a lot of tasters and admired all of the beautiful cakes before having a huge scoop of chocolate mousse with raspberries.

We were heading back to our hotel when we saw the Tin Tin museum! It was so cute and we both bought postcards.

Whilst looking for somewhere to sit and wait for our train, we stumbled upon the Laduree cafe, where we had pink champagne, tea and cakes before we headed back to Lille.

Overall, Brussels was lovely but neither of us thought that it had lived up to expectations. We also found that there were men who kept staring at us and following us which made us feel incredibly unsafe and we have never experienced that before,

If you're thinking of going to Brussels, I would recommend doing your research on where to eat and drink and make sure you go when the weather is nicer. We also only stayed for 2 days and crammed a lot in so maybe if we had longer we would've done more.

Another great trip :)

Thank you for reading, have you been to Brussels? If so, would you recommend doing anything that we didn't do?