Letters to friends

Sarah and I went to Belgium for a long weekend.

We spent Saturday and Monday in Brussels, and met up with Manneken Pis, a famous statue of a happy pissing boy whose name in dutch means “Little pee man.”

The day we saw him he was wearing what looked like a boy scout uniform. He has over 600 different outfits in all, and they get changed regularly. We just missed out on seeing him in his Mozart outfit. Sometimes he gets hooked up to a keg of beer, and they fill cups up and hand them out to the crowds.

He wasn’t doing that the day we saw him, so we went across the road to a pub and had a couple of large glasses of Belgium beer. Sarah really liked the cherry flavored beer called Krick.

I bought a fake australian hat from a traveling hat salesman, after shrewdly bargaining him down from dix-neuf to cinque euro in the space of about 10 seconds by repeatedly telling him I didn’t want to buy it. Sadly the thrill of the incredible discount was soon replaced by buyer remorse.

We also went to the cartoon museum, to see about Belgium comics, of which Tintin, Lucky Luke and the Smurfs are the most famous internationally.

Tags: Belgium, Brussels

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