The low countries are super weird

Juliet and I have been busy soaking up every gram/centiliter of our travels that could be possible so we havent really stopped to check in on the interweb. For now I'll just write my general impressions of my trip P.P. (Post Paris)

ROTTERDAM
A weird city. I felt like I was inside an IKEA. There were people biking EVERYWHERE and all of the buildings and furniture were super functional and modern. Also, everyone had cool glasses.

THE HAGUE (Den Haag)
Similar to Rotterdam but a little cuter. Juliet's friend Bobby took us to a great bar there were I had several DELICIOUS belgian beers... a good precursor to my later travels.

AMSTERDAM
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ANTWERP
We stopped here for a few hours on our way from Amsterdam to Bruges. I got a waffel which was HEAVENLY. I mean, seriously delicious. We walked through the diamond district (it was kind of sickening and monotonous after a while) and went to a fashion museum and a printing museum. We got to see a 500-year-old printing press with Ethiopian, Syriac, Hebrew, English, Dutch etc etc lead type letters. And we got to see a Guttenburg bible. AREN'T YOU JEALOUS?

BRUGES
super small. I cant believe how tiny this town is. But it is cute... kind of like a medieval disneyland. we're exploring it more fully tomorrow, but for now at least I've eaten Mussels (not in Brussels, but maybe I'll do it there too)


Some general observations:
...belgian beer is good
...H&M : Belgium/Holland :: Starbucks : USA
...the dutch have a super funky taste in glasses. and I like it
...flemish/dutch sounds like gobbeldygook
...I might subsist my last two days here on waffels, fries and chocolate. might. maybe. probably.