Sep 23, 2011
London

Day 2

• Happy Birthday, Cylinda!
• Woke up so very early to get to St Pancras train station for the Beer Birthday Bash in Brussels, Belgium
• Took the Eurostar which is blazing fast. It goes through the English Channel for 20 minutes. 
• There were very stupid girls carrying girnomous backpacks in the Brussels train station. When they found some railings to rest against and breathed a sigh of relief, I laughed for a good 15 minutes because I was judging them.
• First stop on the BBBinBB tour was Cantillion Brewery. We took a self-tour and then had a tasting. Also, bought a bottle of Zwanze (limited release) to consume on site. Lots of people come through that little brewery, including tour groups.
• Back to the station to eat at Mezzo di Pasta, Cylinda’s favorite fast food place on the planet.
• Took a taxi to Beer Mania, the first beer store on our tour. Driver wouldn’t or couldn’t speak English so I unleashed my French on him. It surprisingly worked.
• Bought a few bottles of black market Westvlerens, the best beer in all of the world.
• Taxi driver waited for us and then took us to the Grand Place. 
• We struck out on the three beer stores and bars looking for De Cam Oude Gueuze around the Place.
• The brick cobblestone streets of Brussels are no fun for feet so we stopped for a rest at Poechenellekelder, a bar opposite Mannekin Pis which is the statue of a little boy eternally peeing. 
• But that wasn’t the most interesting thing about Poechenellekelder. Inside, it’s decorated with lots of creepy life-size puppets since it used to be a theater. 
• Last BBBinBB stop was Moeder Lambic, a great sour beer bar. We had a terrific meat and cheese plate.
• And success finally in finding De Cam beer bottles!
• We left Brussels in the evening with a suitcase and bellies full of beer.