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| Brussels/Maastricht Xmas Markets |
This weekend we headed to Belgium to visit the market in Brussels. We've never been to Belgium before so it was fun to check another country off our list of places visited. Belgium is very pretty and the houses are nice, different looking from German homes. They have three official languages: Dutch, French and German...but I found that German is not nearly as prevalent and English seemed to be more common than German there. It was mostly Dutch, which I know nothing of, and French, which I hate! LOL Driving up there I was concerned about how the weather would treat us because most of Saturday it was VERY windy, like tropical storm kind of winds, rainy and cold. By the time we got to the market though the rain had blown through and all that was left was wind and cold, which was totally doable.
The market was huge and there was a giant ferris wheel, lots of booths and a big ice skating rink. It wasn't really cold enough for the ice to stay solid, so it was pretty wet on top of the ice and when people fell they got soaked. It made for some good laughs though! We ate Belgian waffles and a variety of other goodies purchased from booths at the market. They had two of the coolest carousel rides I've ever seen there. Hand carved from wood and made of metals and leather, old timey but whimsical at the same time...just amazing! I found the website for the two carousels, designed by the same people. It has some other photos of the carousels on it. That night after we were all marketed out we headed to the hotel. Colin went to bed late and woke up early the next morning and started talking immediately upon opening his eyes. We decided to head over to Holland and visit Maastricht. It is close by and somewhat on our way home, so we decided to go ahead and add another country to the list this weekend. We haven't been to the Netherlands before either, so it was fun to check out a new place. The market was much smaller but still beautiful. Another fun weekend down!
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