September 2009

布鲁塞尔在我们的行程计划中是个过路城市，这个神奇的城市让我们享受在那里的每分每秒。
久负盛名的旧城区离火车站并不远。一路的景致让我们忘了肩上背的沉重的旅行包。
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最具浪漫主义的井盖！

摩登女郎坐在三层小楼上观望全城

路灯 – 要是中国80年代初有这样的路灯，估计在小巷路灯下幽会的男男女女数量会翻倍。

壁画 – 很多时候，旧城区的壁画让人忘了什么是现实，什么是画。人在画中，画在人间。



建筑群 – 我终于发现，我喜欢的都是一个风格的 – 布拉格，慕尼黑。。。







“你能巧克力张照片给我吗？” - 如果你亲眼看见这么精致的巧克力，你就能理解我为何堕落到语无伦次了！所以，Chris是听得懂我的“巧克力语”的。

巧克力店外的雕像。Chris给它配的情景是：

女：你回来了！（眼睛没有离开电视屏幕）
男：恩。我给你带礼物了！
女：什么礼物？（眼睛依旧没有离开她看的肥皂剧）
男：比利时的巧克力。
女（看了巧克力之后）：你太好了！我太爱你了！ MUA!!!!!!!!!!!!
（是不是我两的真实写照，就请各位看官自己评价了。呵呵！）
比利时的小屁孩！这个孩子颇被当地人宠爱，隔断时间就会被换上新衣服。他的衣柜比起芭比娃娃想来也不会逊色多少。夏天穿上海军服让人看着真利落。

Though I've mostly heard that Brussels is boring, we enjoyed it a

lot. That may be partly because we only spent a few hours there,

but it was excellent.

It has some of the fanciest manhole covers in all Europe

Paintings on building walls

A very nice town square, with a large variety of ornate old

buildings including the city hall

Moules frites were wonderful, we had that a couple times in fancy

restaurants (10 Euro incl beer) for both meals. The steak frites

wasn't as good.

Famous peeing boy fountain. He's usually solid black, but the

locals sometimes sew uniforms for him - today some sort of army

uniform.

I think it was a celebration day for that sort of army, at night

they were there, and loudly fired their rifles in unison a few

times.

Amsterdam wasn't quite as charming as I remembered (possibly having to do with us staying in the Red Light District this time around, as opposed to the fancy parts when I was there for an interview a couple years ago).

Property taxes were originally based on the width of the property, so a lot of the places are narrow. This also causes them to design the staircases to be very narrow, so that it is impossible to bring furniture in and out - so there are beams pointing out of the top floor, to which they attach pulleys so that they can bring furniture in through the windows.


Some of the houses were built slanted forward, so that the furniture wouldn't break windows on its way up. Only later did they realize the same effect could be had by making the beams longer.

Many of the houses are built on poor foundations, so slanty houses are quite common - so much so that there are firms that specialize in replacing floors so that the floors aren't slanty even though the houses are, and other firms that specialize in making windows that aren't quite square.

About one street of every ten is alongside a canal, and I very much like the way the streets are laid out as concentric circles.

阿姆斯特丹-毒品和娼妓合法的城市，我们并没有堕落到如此地步，也不喜欢没有限度的放纵自己。
三个字 – 不喜欢
四个字 – 很不喜欢
五个字 – 实在不喜欢

Malmo hosts delightful combination of interesting architecture, parks, and a charming town.

A knotted gun statue we saw in a few locations throughout Europe

I think this was town hall

The Turning Torso, a famous expensive-looking condo, and by far the tallest building in Malmo.

The Turning Torso is in the midst of a whole district with modernist, unique architecture

There weren't as many windmills in Scandinavia (or Holland) as I expected. Still, here's one.

Sculpture out of a story I don't know (I initially thought Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, but I don't think that's it)

In town a lot of the buildings are 500 years old