aucourant Haha ! If you get the chance to walk in the centre of city in the evening, get it ! You'll never regret it ! I've lived here for a long time now and I love every piece of it ! Actually this is the first time I hear someone stating it's overrated ! I don't mind it, everyone has his opinion ! But really, give Brussels a chance, you won't be disappointed !

+aucourant It goes together with #5 and the fact that Brussels is the de facto capital of Europe - “you have seen the capital, you have seen it all”. Of course in any serious guide it is never ranked first.

+Nicolas Seigneur I don't think he is being mean or degrading Brussels, I think he is just giving a comparison so tourists can see the big sites because Americans MIGHT go to Europe once in their life for one week. So our time needs to be spent very carefully to see the big sites. If your European and visit America you would want to visit New York but not Indianapolis! Even though Indy is great, so I know how you feel.

You are a shithole

thhey didn't get raped but groped.

And about Strasbourg?

Seems they choose capital cities like this in several places. For instance, Canberra, Ottawa, Washington D.C. aren't known for being big cultural hotspots

strasbourg aint more significant than brusselles lol ^^

What is now DC was literal swampland that nobody wanted when they decided to put the capitol there. They even established an independent district so the capital wouldn't fall in any state. So, no surprise that DC isn't much of anything.

I think Brussels was chosen as a capital because 1.) It is on the west coast = short flight from East coast of the US 2.) NATO headquarters are in Brussels. It makes sense to concentrate such institutions together as they are tightly bounded and do have overlapping policies naturally.....

true xD

Valentina Anna Mihely I'm indian,okay

I am German

I'm half human, half Vulcan. LLAP.

Valentina Anna Mihely 80% of British watching this think they're not European :-)

Ahahah funny -.-

+tobi - Man, I live in Portugal. I'm quite aware that people in Spain don't speak the same language I do, neither do people in France, Germany or Ukraine. I'm not sure you know what sarcasm is. Maybe I wasn't explicit enough, but my reaction was a sarcastic laughter because of how stupid the question was.

lots of languages in Europe...

It's a sarcastic joke.

pretty sure you don't know if they're joking or not

Yeah it's a political center rather than cultural. For beauty and culture you should visit other cities-Rome,Paris,Vienna etc. ...

+Ella Finstad You forgot about Krakow dude -.-

+Ella Finstad Paris is overrated, other French cities are waaaaay more beautiful

+Elise Tanis no Paris is just the best! I've been to all major cities of France like Marseille, Straßbourge, Nice,... but Paris is the city where you can see the most amazing things like la Sainte-Chapelle or the people in front of Sacré-Coeur and don't forget the Louvre... it just is amazing!

Actually the main EU parliament meeting place is in Strasbourg, which is really a far nicer city than Brussels.

Gnawer Shreth In theory, I agree. But then again... I live in Little Rock, Arkansas, which is far more representative of America than New York -- but I would never recommend it as an international travel destination.

Is it? Plus, it is America, most of the rules do not apply to this country as it does to others. America is giant, and has multiple cultures within it more so than others.

I'm planning on going to Europe later this year. It will be my first time out of the US. I haven't decided for sure where I'll be going, but I'm thinking Czech Republic. Thoughts?

TheBuzzardAndTheWorm I don't know for how long you're going, but if you're in that general area you could easily visit Vienna and Munich as well. You could also go hiking for a few days, in Switzerland for example. Most mountains in Switzerland have a little hostel near the summit, usually very cozy and homely. A good idea would be to go on weekdays.

It's the exact opposite in Malaysia, all the cultural stuff in in the city or towns, there's literally nothing in the countryside. If you want to experience Malaysia you can only go to the city.

What are you on about you dumb sir?? The reason Brussels was chosen was because it's socially diverse and succeeded in being a cosmopolitan city, while being central. Stop with "PaRiS dIdN'T wAnT tO dAmAgE iTs ChArM" or bullshit ideas like that. All these cities have actually competed to host EU buildings, but Brussels was preferred. Berlin and Paris have a lot of ugly ass buildings already, so it never was an argument.

Phil bell lisbon is gorgeous! Greetings from Holland

@@mscarlson1498 Absolutely concur. There is something in the ambience of Lisbon. Something in the vibe of the place. In the attitude to life that the Portuguese have that draws me like a moth to a flame. Would ideally like to move there permanently one day. Best wishes from the UK.

Agree

Certainly one of the best. It's like several cities in one. Every part of it has its own character.

I love this 😂

And sometimes he trolls in suit! Class troll :)

People take it way too serious. Cant they see the humor of it?

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there are worse things in Europe like overfishing or hunting whales in Norway/Iceland. Bull fights do not endanger the entire species

Well you have a point, but the fact that bigger forms of evil exist doesn't make this any less bad.

Slashplite Yes they aren't endangered but its barbaric torture done by a first world country. Just because an animal is numerous doesn't justify acts perpetrated against them.

Im just saying there are worst things and we should focus first on animal extinction in Europe and climate change.

Slashplite We can work on them at the same time, in fact bull fighting could be largely ended with a simple prohibiting of it by the Spanish government. Yes there are many issues in Europe which require a lot of attention, but we can still work on improving in all areas.

Well, it's the LITTLE mermaid! Silly.

Mermaid in Copenhagen is cute

The difference between manneke pis and the statue of l mermaid is that manneke pis has some real history. L mermaid is just placed by a restaurant as art. Manneke pus hundreds of years old and even has a legend was even kidnapped twice. Most tourist are zombies when they visit a city no awareness or knowledge of the history behind it. I would recommend a visit to the broodhuis on la grand place before visiting Brussels. Also some nice musea from the flemish primitives in the Brussels art museum. The most beautifully paintings in the world , Rubens and Bruegel Van Duyck Van Eyck ….just an amazing town Brussels

Norway has been my favorite so far! The fjords are amazing.

I just did a trip to Scandinavia (all the capitals plus Helsinki). Looking forward to the next time I visit

No it is over rated, massively. Everyone I know rates it, yet its shit.

yes but it's really only CIS yougoslavia and the balkans. the near East europe is not so cheap

it is, you just have to behave like you were a citizen, for example we werde in prague just a few weeks ago, and of course if you went to the supermarkets right in the downtown where all the tourists bought there stuff the Prices were quite expenisve, but when you just went like 15 minutes away from the downtown with an tram, to an area where mostly prague citizen lived the Prices in the supermarkets where insanly cheap, like the bread buns there costed about 3-4 Cents per Piece, like you would been able to get 100 (!!!) Bread buns for 3-4€ In Germany you will get about 10 or less, i think i still have photos of the Price tags of all the things, like we bought so much stuff and just paid a few euros!

KRaikkonenSF poland is cheap af

Maybe it was in November or sth. I'm from Latvia and I looked at hotels in neighbouring Vilnius last week and you'd get maybe 3 nights max at 200 euro at a reasonably good hotel, so I opted for airbnb

Depends on what "very cheap" means. Yes, you can get many things in eg Poland for half or a third of the price at home in western Europe, but you cannot get it at a tenth of the price or even less like you could in the 90s.

+Kitchissime Nevertheless it is a Oh that statue. The little mermaid has sometimes the same problem.

+Kitchissime I think it has the Mona Lisa Syndrome. People get their hopes up and are really excited to see the Mona Lisa - but it turns out that the painting is really small and not all that impressive.

Nice name for it. Thanks for the piece of info.

+Kitchissime Often in life, size matters!

+Kitchissime he's american and video is for americans, they like big things))

B Neervoort I've noticed that this guy talks about things of 20-30 years ago. Things that American thought or did by then.

+B Neervoort I sometimes disguise myself as arrogant French :)

+B Neervoort yes they really do to avoid the hate lol

+B Neervoort We American do feel that we are somewhat hated because we stick our noses into every country so we actually think we may be attacked by some American hating nut case! When I went to Mexico I said I was Canadian.....LOL, seriously!! It's a form of paranoia.

+UZIMike ! we hate you because you have no culture, no history. simply people and simply nation.

Nice Euro Trip reference haha

BigSirZebras this is true good sir :)

but they are better in Bruges!!

Miles Forman I kindly disagree, sir. Brussels Waffles (not the Liègeois ones you can find on every street corner, also in Brussels, but the light waffles, not to sweet and with a crunch, served with sugar, or fresh fruit) are delicious. And I haven't eaten better waffles in Bruges. For good beer bars, Kulminator in Antwerp or the Waterhuis aan de Bierkant in Ghent are probably the best in Belgium, but the biggest (and most touristy, that's why I try to avoid it) is Delirium Café in Brussels, and there are Moeder Lambic, Restobière, Biercircus, Nuëtnigenough, and many others. Bruges has some fine beer bars, but in the neighbourhood, I'd go for 't Botteltje in Ostend, in stead of Bruges proper. And in the evening, Brussels is a lot calmer, but Bruges is close to death. Brussels, the biggest city in the Benelux, has more crap than most other cities, but also more good things, they're only often hidden away for the tourists. I've been living here for the last 7 years, and I'm still exploring, getting to know new things, and stuff. Brussels is not beautiful as is Paris with its yellow stone buildings, not as clean as Copenhagen (not to say it can get dirty, unfortunately), or gifted with almost endless good weather, as in Italy or Spain. But it has a vibe many cities in the Low Countries lack, a bit like Berlin is more interesting than, say, Munich, although the latter is defenitely more beautiful, Too bad, the main stations are often a dump, there is litter almost everywhere, some big infrastructure projects have devasted certain areas of the city (North South Junction, the monstrosity that is the Centre Monnaie, the shameless Tour Blaton, which replaced a beautiful Meeting house by Horta, the car tunnel in the Cinquantenaire Park...), the restaurants around Grand Place are almost all overpriced or overrated, etc. It's a city with scars, sometimes a little vulgar, but it has she's not without charm Brussels is a relatively small capital of a relatively small country, where a lot of the European institutions have their seat, NATO has its European HQ here, but it was almost a coincidence. NATO moved to Brussels in a hurry, because the French got out, the EU is here, because the French couldn't have a capital city in Germany, and vice versa, all without a real plan, and often without a decent preparation. For those people expecting the same things as Paris, London or even Berlin, it will be a disappointment. With 1 million people, you can't compare to those cities 10 times bigger. But I disagree when people saying you should skip Brussels, because there's nothing to see or to experience. That's simply not true, but it's not for people who don't have time to explore, as they will be disappointed.

Neither is the Atomium

Yup! Belgium has the best waffles and french fries!

Marjorie Glasser great to hear we could help. I am actually in Chicago right now :) had dinner Greektown. Tomorrow... who knows where :) but glad you liked the video and congrats on 10 years!!

Yes. Eating chocolate and waffles is well worth a visit to Brussels!

Thanks Pete. That's what we try to do. Honest and no BS

Same !

+rsca is god The tourist traps aren't cheap.

Don't fall for them lol

+rsca is god I'm Polish and yeah, that's pretty much true. When I went to the UK and then returned back to Poland after a month I've noticed that I can do a small grocery for £5 (eggs, some cheese, rolls etc.), whereas in the UK I was paying £10 for a lunch. And  £10 equals circa 63 PLN, in Poland you can buy two decent lunches for that (maybe not the best ones, but not the worst either).  And when I've been to Gdansk in January 2015, I've found a pub in which you can buy a 50 ml shot of vodka for 5 PLN (80p) and that was pretty cheap, but it probably is common.  So Eastern/Central Europe is still quite cheap for people from the USA or Western Europe.

It is cheaper than Denmark 100%

@@emiliovincent5903 unless its free, its not cheaper 100% mate

Hi what part,of the Netherlands?? He does alot of videos on the dutch. look in his past

+TheBrassHole london is about whats there not whos there

Makes sense. When a city gets international, it's no longer local.

Brass hole I agree.. what cities would you recommend. because I have only been to England once and I wanna go somewhere other than London

Uncle Chuckles there's a lot to see but stay in a county if you're going and make the most of that one area, I recommend Suffolk, Cornwall, Yorkshire, Cumbria. These are the places best for tourists but there is a lot more in England than people think.

TheBrassHole Add to those Northumberland, Devon, Kent and several others. For cities you can try places like Durham, Bath, Cambridge, Oxford, York, Bristol. In general the larger cities are industrial and more suitable to people who like shopping and clubbing.

meatman66 same here. Paris one summer. Totally friendly even with my ridiculously basic few words of French they were very supportive and helpful. They seemed very very happy I was trying even just a few basic touristy words:)

I was in France in 2006, speaking French and the people there were not friendly. I'm glad to hear that had changed. I may go back.

meatman66 they were argelians

EUROPE IS LIKE USA JUST THAT THEY SEEM TO VOTE BETTER !

@@LeiGullyBrunette It has not changed.

@Jo Martin-Kelly Yes! Same is true of USA. I really hate talk about what 'city' to visit!

Why not..? I'm wondering..Is there any restaurant with fresh meat of killed bull or ( it hapends ) toreador?

Do not go to a supermarket they sell meat! gross! killing animals like cave men! You don't like it? don't do it Yes there are restaurants mostly in the south of Spain where they do the bullfights all year (not just for special holidays) where you can eat bull meat, specially the tail "rabo de toro guisado"(Google it) is really good. (The toreador meat is not allowed, pff liberals and their human rights...)

difference is the way off killing.. torture for hour or 1 good hit...

because living all your life in a cage for the only purpose of feeding humans untill you die is a great life, go to a butchery or a industrial chicken coop see for yourself, and wake up. Bulls live a very good life, and some of them are selected to fight and suffer for 10-15 mins then die.

Eric Cartman its fucking evil shit too, but this doesnt make the bullfights any better. And no they dont live a good life.

I would say Brussels is kind of ok , but there are really much nicer cities and towns in Belgium.

Paris is African and London is Pakistani. It's better to just avoid it

johan bauwens Bruges is for retired people and Leuven is dead once the students are in holidays

johan bauwens mate, Brussels stinks, almost all the buildings are filthy and the people are awful. Brugge, Antwerp and Ghent are the most beautiful cities of Belgium.

i never said it's pretty. i can show you some parts of antwerp or ghent that are as worse as some parts of brussels btw

yes, but Brussels is the exact opposite of them. Lots of crap and some nice buildings.

Mats Koenen People are awful, seriously ?! I didn't see myself this way ! Please don't say such things. You've had a bad experience and i'm sorry about it. Each time i go out in Brussels (which is a lot), i meet new people which are far from being awful ! Please, don't say such generalized statements such as this one :) I agree Ghent is amazing and Brussels is not beautiful everywhere. But all the centre is, IMO, very nice :)

I thought the same thing! I thought Bentonville was a cool little town when I was there. Also....Indianapolis? How rude!

lukaszepesi the US is more like germany pricewise even a bit cheaper :) but yea as a scandinavian i agree that eastern europ is cheap however so is most places outside the german languets area

lukaszepesi Switherland is more expensive than most of the Europe. You have also bigger salary. Here (CZ) we have costs similar to Germany (people sometimes travel to Germany by car to buy whats there cheeper and vice versa) but we have smaller salaries than you or Germans.

languets? holy fuck.

Where in Prague? Where in Switzerland? Switzerland is one of the most developed countries in the world, of course it's cheaper for you, but if you lived in a less affluent part of Switzerland, and compare the prices to the most expensive parts of Prague of course it won't be cheaper. It's all relative. Mala Strana vs. rural village in Switzerland, you would be surprised. :D

It's RELATIVE. German prices are cheap as hell... well they don't get as nice of a health insurance and schools. Still cheap? Not.

Thanks, but I'll take Corsica, French Basque Country, Perpignan, Brittany, Dunkirk over Par-ikistan

+Marcos Muñoz Rodríguez I thought bullfighting had also been forbidden in the Canary Islands.

That's not a culture, that's "un accident de parcours". :)

In fact, there's even a fourth: Around Arlon, people usually speak Luxembourgish. And this was an "accident de parcours" aswell. ;)

It's not really that different, coming from somebody who has spent several years in both Wallonia and Flanders.

Not 3 cultures, 3 languages if anything.

We have different languages in Belgium but the cultures aren't very different.

Yes they do. They are set on fire and stabbed to death.

Ashley Delmar could stop saying that. Get inform!

@Francisco sergei creo que el problema acá es que tú cultura es un tanto barbarica y cruel con los toros. Si solo fueran soltar toros para esquivarlos, sería aceptable, pero en las corridas les prenden fuego, les entierran espadas y lanzas. Los fuerzan a una batalla injusta. El torero tiene equipos de apoyo, médicos listos para atenderle y entrenamiento previo, el torero tiene conciencia de lo que está haciendo. El toro no goza de ninguna ventaja real y solo sufre. Para ti y tu pueblo podrá ser una gran tradición y eres libre de continuarla. Pero los demás estamos en el mismo derecho de declararla salvaje, barbarica e inhumana

@pavo6503 es un error de dedo, yo escribí esto para el sujeto de abajo, el de la bandera de España

Florence! Venice! Barcelona! Malta!

My favourites are Sevilla and Dublin

Paris is beautiful and id love to go back

I love Paris, but also the other towns. Every city has it's own unique character, I don't compare them.

I fell in love with Paris. Right off the train, a very dear stranger, a Parisian lady immediately graciously welcomed me to her city and tried so hard to help me on the Metro (although neither of us knew each other’s languages). I will always be immensely grateful to her even years later. I loved the Sacre Coeur, Notre Dame, the Louvre, the Champs Elysees, the Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, the Arc de Triomphe and Saint- Michel. I eternally thank France for the Statue of Liberty. Thank you, dear France for your magnificent city!

Slimy Weasles I can definitely see your point there. I love Paris and it is my favorite but yes, it can be way overdone. all the best slimy!

Lol, this name I chose as a hormonal teenager is haunting me now... :) Thanks again for another great video; I have not been to Belgium, so it was good to know about the Brussels thing, and alternate (very pretty!) recommendations. :) Btw, I know you've been to China, but have you ever been to Japan?

Slimy Weasles I have not been to Japan yet. But we are looking at it for 2016. We are buying a house so the next year or two of travel will be a bit slower... maybe... hell, we will still travel :) but Japan is a possible Spring Break 2016 trip. Thanks for all the watching and commenting!

Yay! :) Looking forward to it. I hope your house is nice. :)

I agree about Paris. There must be something about people having varied experiences there, though. I encountered arrogance from the people, and the only ones who were friendly wanted to sell you something. Yet, other people I know say they did not encounter this, so I don't know what to make of it.

Is not real fire and they don't get burned.

Foukin' idiot

Rudi Rüssel I remember when I went to a bull fight in Venezuela as a little kid. (My mother was from South America). I looked over the stadium wall seeing all the dead bulls. I told my mother that it made me sad. She told me they butcher them and the meat goes to orphanages. I don’t know if it is true. I just remember how I felt, Hemingway be damned.

​@@johnbaugh2437 why cant they cull the bulls like normal cattle and give it to the orphanages? The fact that they feel like they have to do something generous to justify the act says a lot about it.

Dairy cows are kept in appalling conditions throughout Europe, that’s also torture

Being alive and sharing a world with vegans is torture too

Bullfighting is needlessly cruel. I personally don't mind the killing of an animal as long as it is painless, but this is just awful torture for the poor thing. One of my friends told me that they got to see one of the weird spikey thingies they use in bullfighting, and they are HUGE. Spanish traditions are cool, like the twelve grapes at New Year's Eve, but I can't stand bullfighting.

@Debbie Smith Krakow is amazing, and so are Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw ,Etc. Poland's definitely underrated and is rapidly becoming a desired destination.

+MrVlekje5 true :p

+MrVlekje5 are you Belgian or Flemmish ?

that is the same thing.

+MrVlekje5 you couldn't be more wrong. Brussels is a beautiful capital city. Being en having lived in Brussels for my entire life and I still am by the way. Brussels is the greenest capital in Europe. Brussels is the not only the European capital it also is the NATO's capital. This city is one where you need to open yourself to and it will open itself to you. Gorgeous buildings ( Cinquantenaire, Grand Place, the Royal palace, Royal Gardins, Basilic, Cathedral, etc...). The culture and history is one that differs from the Flemmish as the Walloon part of the country. If you don't see it now, I don't blame you, but take the time to know it, take the time to discover its hidden treasures and it will amaze you if you are open for it.

polifatts i have 2 fathers. jokes on you!

+Lars Inge Larsen Not that big as the claims.

They used to be much bigger 20 years ago. But when it comes to alcohol, countries like Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, etc, are a lot cheaper than Norway. Which is the reason why people from Nordic countries go there, and almost don't stop drinking. They are making an in-body alcoholic reserve before going back home :)

@@cinegraphics Don't people from Norway go to Finland for cheaper alcohol, people from Finland go to Estonia for cheaper alcohol, and people from Estonia go to Latvia or Lithuania for cheaper alcohol. lol

@@Amghannam Yeah, it's alcotourism.

***** who wants cava and tapas? ME!!! :) all the best!

we did a tapas tour, its was awesome mind you the beer and wine out of the jugs with the best, passing it between everyone at the table

Barcelona is one of the most expensive city of Spain (with maybe San Sebastian/Donostia). Prices in Andalusia are half of Barcelona's one. And polish/roumanian/bulgarian ones even less...

really? We found it cheap, then again it was our only spain city, and the other cities we visited were Amsterdam, Paris, London which are all expensive cities in comparison

***** A beer in Barcelona is around 2 euro. 1.5 if you're lucky. In Andalousia, It's 1 euro, sometimes even less and you get a free tapa with it. ;)

xHarlequin That's funny. I would not have moved :) even if you weren't Canadian ;)

woltersworld I don't understand your hate for Brussels. It is so much more than just the Grand Place and surroundings! It has beautiful palaces (did you even visit the royal district? The royal palace is even bigger than Buckingham Palace), parks, art deco architecture, monumental buildings (you won't find anywhere else in the benelux), trendy districts (Dansaert, Flagey,...)... I would like to ask you to visit this photo-collection of beautiful Brussels, it wil amaze you! Don't forget to visit the multiple pages: www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1231597

that's what happens when you rename french fries as "liberty fries" lol

***** Wasn't even speaking lol.

***** Most of the French people I met were very nice, this was the only bad experience I had. This woman seemed a little crazy so I didn't take it too seriously haha.

Pretty sure Mogadishu is nicer than Brussels

You clearly do not know nothing about it

oh so bullfighing isnt animal cruelty? plese tell us how that is mister wise guy, in curious...

@Da Funky Zookeeper Hemingway

Nobody forces you to attend a bullfight in Spain. If you don't want to go, you don't go. Now, you don't have the power to say what is "civilized" and what is "decent." Therefore, you cannot forbid people to go to a bullfight if that is what they want. Stupid fascist.

@@bolobardelavega2843 its a disgusting barberic tradition. You do what you want at the end of the day but call a spade a spade!

true it has such a beautiful station its insane.