{"id":1798,"date":"2022-07-30T15:21:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T15:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2022-07-31T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T10:35:08","slug":"europe-2022-brussels-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=1798","title":{"rendered":"Europe 2022 – Brussels Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Started the day by checking out the Jeanneke Pis (which is supposed to counter the Manneken Pis).<\/p>\n

Afterwards, took a walk around. Visited the Statue de Roi Albert and then walked by the Place de l’Albertine.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, checked out the Royal Palace of Brussels (only the outside), the park beside it (called Brussels Park), and walked outside the Federal Building.<\/p>\n

After, walked over to the Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula. Very beautiful church (organ is interestingly on the left side versus being at the back.<\/p>\n

For lunch, grabbed something at a chain here called Cup Pasta. Here are the details:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/food.johnmatienzo.com\/2022\/07\/30\/cup-pasta\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The rest of the day was spent at Tomorrowland.<\/p>\n

Some details on Tomorrowland: shuttles are located at the North Brussels train station (not the central station), and you need to pick up your wristbands every day. Uber ride costs $110 for a 6 person passenger van (to the festival).<\/p>\n

The drop off point for shuttles is a 15 minute walk from the main event.<\/p>\n

Security is fairly relaxed. They take a quick look inside your bag, and a very relaxed “pat” of the bag.<\/p>\n

For will call, they don’t check your name matching your ticket (in fact, as I took out my passport, they told me to just put it away).<\/p>\n

For buying drinks, you need to load your wristband with “perls”. Each Perl is 1.66 euros.<\/p>\n

The stages we went to on the first day were Leaf, Youphoria, MainStage and Freedom Stage.<\/p>\n

The DJs we saw were: Christophe (Freedom Stage), Boris Brejcha (MainStage), and Eric Prydz (Freedom Stage).<\/p>\n

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