April 2023
This trip took place as part of a Benelux euro-tour for my birthday, during which I visited:
Sinsheim - Karlsruhe - Ausfahrt - Luxembourg - Namur - Liège - Brussels - Dunkirk - Antwerp - Leidschendam - The Hague
In normal life a person won't end up here. But there was cheap Airbnb here and a train station from which you can go, essentially, anywhere
The station was a 20-minute walk across this field. Difference between Belgians and Vovan: Vovan carefully drove with both wheels in the middle, Belgians put one wheel clearly on the bump and the other on the road
Approaching the station, city begins
Total clusterfuck by the station, city divided into 2 parts by railroad
We're in the French part of Belgium, by the way
Should be hell and trash here, but actually at least people live here
City - is brown
Non-alcoholic beer - tasty. By the way, if in Czechia they write on non-alcoholic beer that it's "safe" (like for drivers), here they often straight up write it's low-calorie. Marketing and target groups :) What's interesting, in Czechia they tried to promote that non-alcoholic beer has more vitamins, only worked for crazies
In the evening the city is really cool
Well, ass-end of the world in places, of course, but expectations weren't high
Next day we walked to the local fortress
By the way, nature and walks in it in that part of Europe - a rarity
Something Roman
Can perform a play for a thousand cars
For the rich there's a lift
We managed with our legs
This is me on you
Going down here
This part of the city - pure Poděbrady
Big traffic light
Sign to Belgium's most important city
Straight Vietnam flashbacks from Poděbrady
"Couscouserie". By the way, had some beer here. Service here is like this: you order, they bring you beer and a check with what you ordered. Went to pay at the bar, owner said something in French: "bubuybuybu pleplé ticket", I told her "yes". Turned out you had to bring the ticket, she had to go herself, got offended
Girl kept getting in the frame, didn't want to stop her
At 4 o'clock everyone regularly comes out to hang in the center
Really lots of people for the ass-end of the world
Those who don't live in the center are forced to go through 3 circles of hell
Formally, I'd divide the city into two calmly
Were walking home, turned without thinking
Turned out now either go back 15 minutes, or walk around for a whole hour
By the way, Belgian crosswalks are often black on black
For a pedestrian in Namur, of course, it's tough
One wrong turn = about an hour of extra walking
But otherwise, city's fine
Conclusions: not that I'd advise going here intentionally, but the city's cool, if you get a chance to at least stop here, can't help but recommend