Sleeping in hotel foyers
Ive finally arrived in Belgium after a very long journey here. Pretty much just hung out in Tours for the last day then caught the last train to Paris that evening; becuase my bus to Brussels was a 6am the next day I didnt think there was much point in getting a hostel room so plannes to just wait in the bus staion cause theres always security guards and people around…..so I arrived in Paris about midnight, got the last metro over to the bus station….which they closed….hmmm wasnt expecting this. So its about 1 am, its pouring with rain and Im standing on the street in some industril type area in Paris with the metro shut, wasnt exactly the plan.
So for the first time in awhile I really have no idea what to do, I couldnt just sit on the road with my big bag, there were hotels around but all about 80 euros a night, not so good. I figured at lease I could put my bag somewhere then people maybe wouldnt want to rob me so much so I went to the hotel that was right there and looked very sad and asked if I could leave my bag there, and maybe just wait in the lobby, or I could sit outside the doors and could he just make sure I didnt get attacked…what could he say? He kind of just was like you cant really do that but go to the forst floor and put your bag in a locker, and theres some seats there. So upsatirs in this flash hotel I ,put my bags in the locker and found a chair to wait out the night in. A few security people came passed but ignored me which was good, even managed to get a bit of sleep! at about ‘am a while bunch of australians came back form town who I ended up talking to, they were on a contiki tour ans they confirmed all my stereotypes of those tours! basically they spend 2 days in each country for a month, get drunk every night and all sleep with each other. It was pretty interesting! So had a good few hours chatting to these crazy drunken guys before slipping out the front doors just before 6 and going down to catch my bus. So I survived the night! the drunk people even gave me money cause they were drunk and thought I was homeless or something…good for me!
Slept all the way to Brussels only a 3 hour bus ride, good weather is gone, its grey and rainy. Brussels is a strange city, its kind of small, not much to do, very odd. Staying in a nice hostel thuogh and have meet some cool people. Last night we went and brought chocolate and different types of belgium beer, theres so many raspberry, cherry… because thats what you do in Belgium, and today we are off to find Belgium waffles! Here for another 3 nights and will prbably take some day trips around the country, every thing is only about an hour away at most cause this country is so small. Very strange but should be fun and will eat lots of chocolate!
Tags: Belgium, Brussels, chocolate, h.Belgium
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Hey Arnika,
I just checked out ur photos for the first time and they are awesome, awesome, awesome!!! Oh it looks so nice and warm and classy and fun times!!!
When do you see Ben and Downo? We’re just off to Farmers 21st tonight! I think it is meant to snow again..I hope it doesn’t it is such a pain in the ass!!! Did you hear about the weird snowfall the other day..a little bit strange for this time of year!! But, u don’t need to care cos your in the sun u lucky thing!!!
Anyway have a great week
Email me and let me know how you are getting on.
Luv Kate
And the food sounds great!!!!