After lots of confusion - who would have thought, that Bonn has two different parking garages at the train station- we headed off to Bruxelles at around 7pm. The drive to Bruxelles was quite comfortable and the beer made the background noise bearable. We arrived in Bruxelles at around 10pm and I think it is one of the most confusing cities in regards to traffic directions - because there are hardly any. Scotties one page map of Bruxelles did not help either and for the first time I really wished, that I had a gps device.

We kicked Thorsten out in the middle of Bruxelles, confident that with his social skills he would be able to find his way. After thirty minutes and helpful directions from a local we found the youth hostel and even a parking space. I had already confirmed our booking in the morning, so we got the 3 bed room. The room was alright and even had a shower inside, plus a really nice view. We unpacked our stuff and headed for a restaurant to get diner just around the corner. Fortunately the waiter was helpful and even spoke some German, so we did not get animal brain. Each of us tried a different beer and after a while I got used to my glass of Hoegarden. Food was quite good - no one left hungry - and prices were around average.

We headed back to the bar of the youth hostel, had a big stella and relaxed for a while, before we returned to our room. However, I was not really tired and Scotty suggested to watch a movie. Waldemar had Herr Lehmann on his laptop, so we tried to establish an ad-hoc wlan network, so that we could watch it on our laptops as well. Needless to say, that while Scotty and I were able to establish a link without a problem, Waldemar had to go through a lengthy process with his laptop and OpenBSD. It took around half an hour till we got it running, but in the end it worked quite well. The movie went a bit longer, than I had thought, so we went to bed rather late at round 4am for a short nap.