Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Manneken Pis

Manneken Pis is an iconic Brussels fountain, which is odd because it's of a naked young boy urinating.


Some days they put him in costumes.


Every store in the area sells some sort of Manneken Pis paraphernalia.

Our second day in Brussels was not as idyllic as our first. We tried going on a bus tour, but it was terrible. Just awful. The bus driver tried to not accept our tickets bought online and pretended to not speak English to us (even though we had heard him speaking to the group of Brits in front of us with little difficulty), my headset didn't work so we had to share, the driver missed a bunch of stops and didn't follow the proscribed path, and the audio tour was minimal and incorrect. We got off at the second stop.

After that we made it to the Grand Place and all of the touristy stuff around there. It was so loud and packed with people that we didn't spend much time there. However, we had to stay in the area because of a chocolaterie tour and demonstration that we were going to attend nearby that afternoon.

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