Considering the Monty Small Design Hotel in Brussels?
A VT member wrote the following comment about visiting Brussels:
on being ignorantly 19 by richiecdisc
This is one city you have to spend some time in to see. It's spread out and there's more to see than you might initially think. There are also lots of great cafes to relax in and try a great variety of beer. Oh, the food scene is not too shabby either!My first trip to Brussels was not really a trip there per se but more of a trip through. I was a 19 year old college sophomore and was on my virgin trip to Europe. I was taking in all the requisite sights and I must say Brussels or anywhere else in Belgium was not one of them. In fact, I am not sure I had ever heard of Belgium at that point in my life. No, I was too concerned with London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam and maybe catching Oktoberfest in Munich to give anything else much thought. At any rate, there I was in Brussels Central Station on my way from London to Amsterdam waiting for my change of trains. I could easily have spent a few hours in the city and gone on a later train but the idea never entered my mind. In fact, I never even ventured outside the station to even get a glimpse of what it looked like. Brussels conjured only one thing in my mind and that was Brussel Sprouts, something I was none too fond of. With a name like that, it must be a pretty ugly city I must have thought. Besides I?d never heard anything good, actually at all, about it so how amazing could it be? (continued below in Fondest Memory)
