Wednesday morning, the 24th of December, a day before Christmas. I embarked onto the journey to Brussels. I, personally, was really looking forward to Brussels, the land of chocolates and WAFFLES… I didn’t have a good start tough. The train from Hilversum (where I was staying) to Amsterdam Central station had mechanical problems and stopped midway for a while. The result of which, as expected, I missed the connecting train to Brussels by 5 minutes. Sheesh…. But thankfully, there was another train shortly which I boarded and was off. Whew. Within 3 hours I reached Brussels. My commute misfortune didn’t end there Even though, as per the map, the Marriott hotel was located like 10 minutes walking distance from the Bruxelles Centraal station it took me about 30 minutes to reach the hotel because I went
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