Mission in Bruxelles

Today, we took the trip to Bruxelles. The travel time is a bit long, 45 minutes - especially in this heat.Today's mission was to find an outfit for Thaïs (Wendy’s daughter) who will participate for the first time to Avatar, a yearly famous LARP event in Belgium.

This she will attend with her two uncles (Wendy's brothers), Corentin and Thomas.

So, our adventure started in the middle of Saint Gilles, an area in Bruxelles with a particular atmosphere. It's basically a cocktail of poor population, artists, strangers of any country and older people, it’s easy to find cheap shops there of any kind and every taste. This including the world-spanning arabic shops: cheap, exotic and kitch. We visited four shops in a row, where we at each found one piece for the costume. End result: little rogue! Not bad.

However, we were not done. Just so we didn't make the drip just for this outfit, we decided to go further in the “normal” commercial area and buy books in the Waterstone English Library. We got two books for Wendy (the book 2 and 3 of The Runelord serie writted by David Farland), Fredrik had enough books to read for now.

Hungry, thirsty and tired, we ended to stop by one restaurant Ekxi, sort of bio fastfood for Bobo ("Bourgeois boheme", aka rich but ecologic/spiritual/artist-esque people) After some back and forth, we got a chicken salad. Nom nom! 

On the way back, we saw the typical street musician, but with a fairly non-typical instrument. The easiest way to describe it would be a big bell / wok-pan with lid on kept between his knees and used as a percussion, apparently an instrument concieved in Switzerland, year 2000. The sound is not much unlike the kind of hammered-to-shape "beach-style" metal drum that's often heard in tropically themed music. 

At the point of writing we're back home - still warm from the sun, but cooling off with some lemonade Wendy made (also nom nom). It's almost time for dinner (and later, more slacking?). 

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