The trip to Belgium & Germany was way too short! And so very tiring as we travelled ALOT on trains. Don’t even get me started on Germany. Nevertheless, we enjoyed our time at Belgium and some of our time in Germany. Note: SOME. Haha..but that’s another story for another day. =)

It was only about a 2 hours train’s ride to Brussels from London by Eurostar. The seats were comfy and I like the fact that their seats had this bit jutting out on the sides so you can rest your head on and sleep. Will try to take a picture the next time! Aeroplans should apply the same thing on their seats considering they charge a whole lot more!! and that the travel time is a whole lot longer!!

The Eurostar

We were picked up by my aunt and uncle from the train station and was taken on a joyride around town for a sneak peak of Brussels. We got to see Atomium by night and it was beautiful. Funny that after all these years of living in Belgium, it was actually my aunt’s first time seeing it at night. =)

Lights of Atomium at night

My uncle and aunt lives in a little town, Ottignies, which is about a half an hours drive away from Brussels. We would commute to the city by train which could take more than an hour if we took the damn slow train(!!!) which would stop so many damn times and about 40 minutes if we caught the fast ones.

The street my aunt and uncle live on…and that’s their car over there!

Their Restaurant and lovely home upstairs

They were nice enough to welcome us into their home for the stay and there was such great hospitality there that it made me miss home and my parents so much.  They always made sure we wouldn’t go hungry by preparing sandwiches for us to take on the trains. They drove us to Antwerp for a tour which we thought we would skip due to time constraints. Brought us for ‘dim sum’ at the Chinatown in Antwerp. Bought us little egg tarts and pandan cakes so we would not go hungry after. Bought us oh-so-yummy belgian chocolates!!! And so many other things in which words would not suffice! <3

Very Delicious Steamboat prepared by Aunt & Uncle

Steamboat!! Won ton freshly prepared by my uncle~ And there were 5 different types of Chili dips! We are ‘lat jiu wongs’.. Lol…

Before we left for London, I finally got to see my cousins! When we were alot younger, they would always make their annual trip back to Malaysia. We were pretty close then and would always have a whole lot of fun. The trips to Port Dickson and Bukit Kiara Club and all of us running around my grandma’s house seems like just yesterday. My uncle would always carry us and throw us into the pool over and over and over again. Haha. And he would always do his ‘lou shi’ muscle flex thing with his arm. Lol. But sadly in reality, my grandma’s house is not where it used to be and we no longer make our trips to Bukit Kiara Club or Port Dickson. =( We’re all grown up now and hopefully I would even be hearing wedding bells soon from my cousin! Finally got to meet her boyfriend of 5 years, Fred. =D

The trip was too short and I wish we could’ve stayed longer to spend more time with everyone. But since it’s only 2 hours away, i’m sure our next visit back is pretty soon!! Will blog more about Belgium in the next post as this post is dedicated to my aunt and her family. <3 Au Revoir~