Are you enjoying Belgium? Always wondered why people from abroad are interested in our little country (part from the beer).
OK. I'll sum it up in a few points.
1) Your history is very rich in comparison to America.
2) Belgium has been occupied by a lot of different cultures. It reflects in their food and architecture.
3) The people are very calm, nice, and open. I am here alone on vacation and there hasn't been a day where I didn't kick back in a bar and end up talking to 2-4 random people about.... whatever.
4) Bruges... Holy shitballs. It's like a stepping into a gothic timewarp. I walked around that town for 2 days in awe of it.
5) Amsterdam is like San Francisco but, cleaner, no hills, and nicer people. I ended up kicking back in a bar with a bunch of locals watching soccer. They were a bunch of really good guys that liked to talk shit and riff on every culture. Nice working class people.
6) Beer... People said that California beer took 2nd place to the Belgium. Belgium took more gold metals but, California took more metals. I enjoy your beer more in your country because they serve it from Kegs and they go through so much, it is always fresh on tap. In America, it sits in bottles on shelves and isn't as fresh.
Yeah... The Hookers, Pot.... I can see why people come for that but, I live in California(which has toe curling weed) and I have a girlfriend that trusts me to go anywhere I want. So, I can skip those two things and just be a watcher.
You have a very nice country.
-Nate