Caught on tape in Brussels

Here is the video footage of what I visited in Brussels. I am out of here now for a tour of Luxemburg. Maybe there will be more video later of Luxemburg.





Transcript (by Heather): Brussels, I read a book that said that central place was the best place to go first. Now I'm walking around looking for that. I found the library, it's cool, wanna see?
Last night I found this place, and it looks cool, but one interesting thing is that they have one area in the ground, when it is nighttime, the lights will light up from the ground. It looks like stars. I'll show you where the lights are. Lights. Last night, I looked and found a cool market area, they had restaurants, food, and different things. It was really cool. I'm walking there again now.
I'm still walking, looking for that central place. I think maybe I found it a while back and don't know about it. Anyway, while walking, I found a cool building, I'll show you. I wonder if that's what I'm looking for. I'll walk and see if I can find the name of that building.
I found grand place, this isn't it, it's around the corner, but I wanted you to see the inside of the central square. That hotel right there is the Hotel De Ville, there is a story on a blog, I'll have to see what's up with that. That big building you just saw, that was the Hotel De Ville. Let's see outside, the grand place now.
I'm leaving now, I'm looking for parc de brussel. It looks like a huge park with cool things inside, we'll see.
I found Don Quixote and his friend, Sancho Panches.
Now I'm in the Cathedral of St. Michael and Gudule. The woman just came up to me and asked me to take off my hat. OK. Anyway, the cathedral here is cool and big. Outside they have descriptions and I took pictures of those already, I'll show you those later.
And that's it, I'll walk around and see what's up.
That park I was looking for, I finally found it.
There's a cool big water fountain.
I'm sitting in front of that water fountain. It looks like a good place to rest. I think I'm finished for now, maybe I'll go back to the hostel at 2, then take a nap. Right now it's 11:15 in the morning, and the hostel is closed from 10am until 2pm. So now I have to go out look at things. Maybe I'll sleep here, it looks nice and pretty.
I feel good, I rested an hour, now I looked at the map, they have the US embassy right there. I've never been inside a US embassy before, so I'll go inside and see what I can do there. If they let me, I'll try to videotape the inside. If not, oh well.
Well, I tried, but they told me NO, you must have a diplomatic passport or if you have a military ID, then you could, but I don't have either one, so I was stuck I guess. Anyway, that's it. I guess I'll try it again in another country and maybe they'll let me in.
Look at the cool bike lane.
See that step? I didn't see it and tripped. It was funny, FYI.
Cool building, but it's interesting when you use my sunglasses, you can see a different design with the windows. See if you can see it with the camera or not. I'll try it with my sunglasses on the camera.
I finally found the EU capital building. That's not it. I thought that was it, but there's another EU building there but I finally saw the capital building, I recognize it from the pictures. Now I have the option of seeing some old arches or the EU building this way. Both are pretty far. I think I've decided which one to see. See the arch. Anyway, I want to see the EU building, it's new and fancy. I'll walk over there, then we can see it together.
I finally found the EU capital building. I don't know why, but it's not on the map, not in books, nothing. I guess it's not really a tourist attraction, but I'm interested, so now it's my tourist attraction. Anyway, a man just walked by and laughed.
A man just walked up to me and told me that I can't videotape here. I already got the video anyway, so it's fine. Interesting that they won't let you videotape here.
Now I'm learning the new metro system for Brussels. It's cool and easy to use, just like any other metro system in the world. You can see the map for this line only. Anyway, soon I'll be back to that ??? area, then buy food, eat, then go back to the hostel and sleep.
I arrived back to the hostel just now, and I'm starving, but I thought about buying food here, and it's expensive, 21 euros for one meal, that's pretty expensive. I don't want to blow my money when I'll be hungry again in a few hours. I remembered what Lee, my friend from Gallaudet in Washington, DC, told me, go to the food store and buy cheap stuff and make your own food. I walked and found a food store close to that central place, I decided to metro there, you saw that, I found it, bought food for 15 euros, wanna see what I bought? I have some cheese, meat, salad, yogurt, a full loaf of bread, it will last me several days, at least. I'll eat whatever goes bad first, then leave the rest for later.
That was an awesome meal, now I'm heading back to sleep. I'll wake up later tonight, go out and party maybe. Bye.