Only in Belgium

I am back from my travels - I went to meet my mum and our friends in Belgium last week. If you follow me on Instagram/Twitter you know now what I ate, drunk and what was the weather like.

But you have not seen yet a protest of Flemish firefighters that we have accidentaly became a part of. It was -12, police was on one side and bored firefighters on the other side and our Belgian friends were extremely excited about the street in front of the PM headquaters was completely empty. They have never seen it that way - apparently there is a permanent traffic jam there so they immediately wanted to have it documented in pictures! And this is how we ended up in the middle of the protest - someone opened tha park gate for us and here we were!

Later on I saw in the local newspapers that the firefighers poured water all over the police...

So here we are: Mamma with the police and firefighters in the background, Andre and Wout celebrating the lack of the traffic jam and the general view of the street and some worried firefighters (they would have to work two years more before retiring...).

Other highlights of the stay included lots of Godiva/Leonidas/Boon chocolates, tasty beers (and this is from someone who is not a big fan of beer!), proper winter, early starts and late nights (Belgium people work hard and party hard) and coffee (do not ask for tea in Belgium, you might end up with a beverage that does not have much in common with what is popolarly known as a cup of tea...).

I definitely need to come back to have a proper look at a new Rene Magritte museum.