I’m in Bruges! I had gotten to Brussels Central early as I wasn’t entirely sure I knew what I was doing… though do I ever? The trains apparently run a little late here in Belgium… but your ticket is good on any train all day. As a result, I caught an earlier train that after […]
I purposefully left a few things for my last day in Brussels. There was the big museum in Grand Place. Closed on Mondays. There was this meatball place near Fritland. Closed on October 1st and 2nd. I stumbled upon what might have been my photo mecca – “Moof” or the Museum of Original Figurines that […]
I realized before I left my hotel this morning that this would be my 365th marathon. So every day for a year of my life I’ve gotten up and walked to a marathon’s start line. This weighed heavily on me throughout the race, both as an unearned privilege and a crazy hobby. Some […]
I’m not the poster child for SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). But I am the late-in-the-campaign third string for secondary markets poster child. It’s an overcast, drizzly day. A cold front moved through last night, the rain at that outdoor concert the harbinger of cooler temperatures and overall dampness of the day. I’m not feeling 100% […]
I didn’t understand the words, but I knew the tone and the aftermath. Something hadn’t gone right in the opening monologue and transition into the first act, so they were doing it again. I had assumed the free concert in Grand Place was being broadcast live but those assumptions were quickly replaced with the realization […]
Being in Brussels is like I’m inside The Truman Show. And it’s not the Kevin Show. It’s as if there’s been a sequel — The Truman Show Goes To Europe — and I am a poorly screened extra who has wandered onto the backlot fantasy world of a European town. It all has this surreal, […]
September 28, 2017 – A Free Walking Tour Of Brussels Upon checking into my hotel, a hotel which offered a room not much bigger than the cupboard under the stairs in Paris, I thought I’d wander Brussels for a bit. You’re supposed to leave your key at reception when you go out (as a fire […]
I’m On A Bus! Is it a travel story of legend? Nope. It’s just super boring. Sure, sure. I watched the world stream by. Pondered my insignificance on a macro, universal scale. Sniffled and coughed through what must be a re-emergence of an untreated sinus infection. But there’s nothing of import to share, no good […]
I’m on a bus! For 13 euros I’m traveling 308 km (or 191 miles) from Paris to Brussels. There I’ll try out my new shoes at the city’s premier Marathon. My shoes are Hulk shoes. I hope I don’t make them angry. I wouldn’t want to run in them angry. There was an instruction card […]
I’m feeling a bit like Charlie Chaplin today. Not co-founder of United Artists, titan of Hollywood, artistic genius, and possibly not-great-guy-in-real-life-all-the-time Charles Chaplin. No, more Charlie “Little Tramp” Chaplin. For you see, there’s a hole in my shoe. Actually there are SEVERAL holes in my shoes. Because my bag for this trip was already bursting […]