Saturday, September 29, 2012

Brugge, Beligum: Food

This is going to be a very uninteresting post as I didn't take photos
of any of the food. I ate out 3 times in Brugge. Dinner the first
night was fine had a ribeye with famous Beligum frites, the steak was
a steak the frites were above average crispy on the out side and soft
and smooth like mashed potatoes on the inside. Everyone around me had
the Moules frites which in retrospect I should have ordered because
they all seemed to be enjoying them a lot.
As I was sitting down for lunch at L'Estaminet the second day I see
Mateo and Pierre-George two Italians from my hostel in Brussels
walking in and this was the second time that day I'd run into them so
we ate lunch together. I had a Croque Monsieur that was very good and
a Belgium chocolate musse for dessert. So we decide to meet up for
dinner at T'Ganzespel where I actually tried eating at the previous
night not realizing it was only open on the weekend. I had the fish
special which came with a delicious tomato soup but not like the
American style it was more like a broth. The fish came with buttery
fingerling potatoes and salad greens. The star of the meal was the
cream sauce that came on the fish, it was amazing I dipped my potatoes
in it too.

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Barcelona, Spain: Arrival

I booked a week in Barcelona because I heard from multiple people in
the previous cities it was great and lots of cool things to see. I
found my hostel without incident but still exhausted from carrying my
pack and there were no seats available on the metro. The first
roommate I met was a girl from Chicago (2nd American I'd met so far)
and the second was a guy Rinaldo from Sau Paulo, Brazil aka St Paul.
Hanging with him came in helpful because he spoke Spanish and English.

Couple of photos I took on the train from Madrid to Barcelona.