Bye bye Brussels - Boarding the Viking Freya in Antwerp

More from Brussels:

A gas station. One at a time please….

This is Manneken Pis, a famous statue in Brussels. Here he is relieving himself. (Nice.) They change his outfit every day. Today, a football (soccer) jersey.

Yesterday we had a bit of a scavenger hunt for a place to buy a curling iron for Deb. She felt that hers was feeling too hot, even with the converter. After a few false directions we found the right store and…success! Scroggs said it was too bad that Deb spent her whole souvenir budget before she even boarded the ship…. (probably only Laura Scroggie will relate to this!)

Our hotel, Radisson City Center. The courtyard where we ate breakfast in the morning and drank at the bar in the evening. And an atrium with walking path. We did not walk there but we hit 16,000 steps anyway.

Our guide says most Belgians are Catholic but are bad Catholics. They only go to church 3 times in their lives, and they don’t know about 2 of them: baptism, funeral and wedding.

And this had to happen. We’re in Belgium!!

Boarding the ship

Some people next to us at dinner last night came into Brussels from Amsterdam for the day. It’s a 45-minute train ride. It’s going to take us 9 days to sail there so apparently we’re on a very slow boat!😂