Belgium - Brussels 16th - 18th Nov

made my first trip outside UK with sarah, hilda, eric and christy (all from hk, studying in different cities in uk). we chose this place for one reason - coz we found a cheap ticket to fly there!

nice trip, relaxing and joyful, didn't rush for anything, we all did very well to forget our heavy work load on study and enjoied it the most! ^u^

it was mid night when we arrive on fri night, and decided to walk to the hotel (yes, such a group of young traveller), but than we asked a local person where is the way, he suggested us to go by metro. we found the metro station and got in, waited there for 40 mins, talked and talked anf talked, and found out the metro already stopped. at the end, same as our original plan, we went on foot and arrived the hotel at around 2:30 am, and eventually went to bed at 4am. i can't discribe how excited we were when we saw a snack bar still open on our way to the hotel. haha! that was such fun experience, we love it very much as we all believe it will never happen again if we were 3-4 years older.

we ate so much in this trip!!! becasue we have been "brain washing" by the price in UK for 2 months, and eveything was cheap for us!! but actually they are not cheap at all.........ha! but still, much cheaper than uk.

another funny experience, we were looking for a place for breakfast on sat morning. we passed by a resturant which looks local and cheap, we poped in and saw many single man sitting there doing nothing and also there was no seat for us, so we left. than some 'customers' use their body language asking us to stay, so we went in again. finally we found out that was actually a social resturant for poor people, it's a social service and the food inside is FREE! haha~ felt like eating in 人民大食堂OR八號風球避寒中心. they also invited us to stay there for lunch, and ofcourse, we DID NOT! honestly, a bit scary.

i was totally a follower in this trip, didn't look at the map, didn't lead the way, didn't make any decision of where to go, leave them all to our only male group member - eric. this is not usual to me, but i managed it quite well, actually it is also good to be a follower.

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