Day 33: bike riding

We were told that the flea market was best at 6am. So we alarmed ourselves at 6 am and walked 30 mins in the fresh (and still black) morning air to the flea market. They were still setting up the lazy things and it looked pretty poor actually- old antique treasures... Or old antique crap whichever way you want to look at it. We sat at a nearby cafe and had coffee instead. It seemed this was what all the sellers were doing too for it was full of old men. Due to the intensity of having 5 girls together all the time we decided to split for the day. The iovannellas headed off in one direction and the bass, han and gen in the other. We headed home first for a hearty bowl of muesli but unfortunately when we bought milk last night we accidentally purchased butter milk - it tasted crap basically. The muesli was ruined. I put coffee in it and ate it anyway.  We then decided a self walking tour was in order. The first place visited was unfortunately the dodgy part of town and not so pretty. It was where the shipping used to take place.  However we did happen to walk past some hire bikes so on this perfect sunny Brussels day we rode of to the other sites and found that Brussels is actually a beautiful place. We rode to some gardens which were mega and awesome and the royal palace was at the tip just to top it off. We had mass photo time on another pretty park with a lake and water feature. We got super hot riding up hills on shitty bikes. We bought delish fresh bread and salad and made rolls in the park befriending the ducks. We walked some more then to the palace of justice and a surrounding gorgeous view of Brussels. We also visited some churches of course. And dad i may have found the carpark and the cafe near the church where you and mum spent the night and ate brussel sprouts but there are so many churches that one can never be sure. Then we went back to grand square to admire it in daylight. We didn't think it could get better but it did. In the light you were able to see all the detail of the carvings and statues. A little street off grand square had numerous chocolate shops and we self chocolate toured these obtaining free and bought samples in each!  That night we went out for beer at a place famous for it's friendly service, home brew, sour beer and flavored beer. I had a peach flavored beer and it tasted sweet like cider. Me like peach beer and it came in a big glass. We also tried the sour beer- not so much like there though. It tasted like warhead lollies- the blue flavour.  After beer of course comes waffles so we found the apparent best waffles place. They were three times as much as the street vendors but they were three times better. Mine had hot choc sauce and icing sugar.