An adventure...

This afternoon, Matt and I decided to take a long walk to try and find the famous site in Belgium called the Atomium. The Atomium is a giant, 335 foot tall, model of an iron crystal, created by Andre Waterkeyn for the world fair in Brussels in 1958. We could see it looming in the background from nearby our house, so we decided to try and see if we could walk to it. We set off down the road but after a few minutes lost sight of the Atomium. But, we decided not to give up and after about an hour or so of walking we finally reached the Atomium. Below is a picture that I took of the Atomium:

The Atomium

The Atomium is located in a place of Brussels called the BruPark, which reminded me much of an amusement park without the rides and only the restaurants. Me and Matt were exhausted so we sat down in this small bar called the Toon Land. We had some delicious Belgian beers to warm us up:




We didn't feel like walking all the way back to our house so we decided to try our luck at the Tram system. We did pretty well and within fifteen minutes we were back to our house. A thing that I find to be better here and Belgium than back home in Boston is the public transportation. Though similar in cost, each time you enter a Subway, Bus, or Tram, you scan your pass, and are allowed one hour of use of the public transportation. So for instance, say you wanted to take the metro to go buy a loaf of bread, assuming you are under one hour of time, you only have to pay once. In Boston, you would have to pay for each trip. The one hour covers all modes of public transportation too, so you can use a combo of the metro, bus, and tram during that hour. I like it!