Day 5... and 6... and 7

Day five was a long one.

Allow me to explain.

Big. Biiiiig. Biiiiiiiiiiiiig Walk around Brussels, seeing many an awesome thing such as the PALACE OF JUSTICE (which can only be said with a boomy voice)
On this big walk we saw many of the Palaces in Brussels centre and south, as well as a lot of war memorials. We ended up in the Royal gardens of the main palace, which had a collection of very spangly fountains. Win.

After this crazy amount of a-walking, we all felt a little tired. So... *sigh* back to O'Riellys we went.

Where.
The biggest reverse spesh happened.

Dan realised that they had been working all of thier money from sterling... and that they had done all the math WRONG. With a sigh and a calculator, they re-worked thier money and realised theywere FINE. AND woulld probably be fine for the duration ofthier trip. I laughed heartily as I watched them both facepalm, double facepalm TRIPLE facepalm and then laugh themselves.

OIn returning to the Hostel. There were no rooms. As a group of about 100 million children had decended on the hostel for a trip of some kind. Natalie the wonderful hostel lady we loved so much told us there was no room but bless her she did try her hardest to find other hostels and hotels until she found us a room, which we thought was very kind. It was however, pitifully expensive, so we resolved....

To stay awake all night.... yay.

On wandering the streets of Brussels until 2 in the morning we found an ALL NIGHT ROCK CAFE/BAR! WIN!
On entering this bar we were generally ignored until two nice german girls named Hanna and Anna (!) came and sat with us, until Anna realised we were english and told us she hated speaking our language and buggered off. Which made us laugh. Hanna however sat with us all night and we had a right laugh. It was brilliant. We ended up leaving the bar at about 7 in the morning.

After 7, we wandered Brussels some more until finding a Hotelthat said "cheap rooms still available!" With a sigh we checked in and it was cheap.. but the room was AMAZING. The staff were lovely!

DAY 6

Although day 6 had technically already started we werent awake until about 7/8PM Upon waking we went for food, found food, ate food, returned to the Hotel watched an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (which WAS in english) Then fell asleep... I however fell asleep shortly upon returning to the Hotel... rabbits arent built for NOT SLEEPING.

Day 7

Upon waking very late, we NOMMED on the Hotels breakfast (that was Brllnt) and then checked out, checking BACK into our Hostel that now had room. Natalie, the kind hostel lady mocked us.. FURIOUSLY. Seriously.. the mocking was relentless. Which we all enjoyed.
Day 7 involved doing very little. We did a tiny bit of walking, but spent most of the day vegging out in various parks and then spending the night in the Hostel Bar talking to a Belgian, an Aussie and a Scottish barman ("Bloody english we heard him cry!). It turns out, Current british politics has got SHIT on Belgian politics.

Apparently, accoring to our belgian comrade, not only has Belguim not had a central government for 2 YEARS but they have also never had a stable goverment last longer than a year and a half! GO TEAM! He also told us that the idea of Britian having TWO major parties confused him as Belguim has 7 on the french speaking side and 5 on the dutch and NONE OF THEM WORK TOGETHER. We'll say it once more... GO. TEAM.

Singing off
D'Arti (+ Dan + Joe)