Last Monday, we drove to Brussels to spend the week with friends. What should have been a 9 hour drive became 11 hours when we got to the border and met the Belgian dairy farmers who blocked the auto route to protest milk prices. We stayed at a great hotel in the St. Catherine neighborhood where there were interesting restaurants and shops. There were day trips to Brugge and Ghent, tours of chocolate shops and a factory, eating the best fries in Brussels at maison Antoine, and having good food which of course means mussels. The drive home was even worse than the drive north as most of the Dutch and Belgians were leaving their courtries for the sun and beaches of France. We had to get off the auto route twice and finally took a small road through lots of towns for the last 3 hours home. All in all it was a good. More photos will be at http://www.flickr.com/photos/petillant
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