[English] - Hey! I'm Conor, the Language Tsar and today I'm in Brussels Belgium.
I'm not gonna exaggerate. Brussels is not my favorite city in Europe but if you do happen to
be here for whatever reason, you see get stuck here you're forced to come here for work
like a lot of people are or you're just curious about the city because it does
have some things to offer. It's not completely void of distractions and fun but ... so in
this video I'm going to give you a little bit of overview of my favorite
things to do with I'm in Brussels for just a couple of days so let's go and
see Brussels!
- So Conor, how does it feel to be back in Brussels? The City where I used to live for
what? Five years? - Yeah that's right ... a little bit bittersweet I mean the the
rain has gone ... Yeah, this is probably the most beautiful square in Europe
around the La Grand' Place in Brussels and it's really spectacular. If only the city
all looked like this then of course I would probably never have left but it's
just one square. It was built with huge money when the city was rich.
- I didn't all these things gonna thank you for listening
- Yeah, I mean normally Language Tsar is not so intellectual, right?
That right there is one of Belgium's national treasures that is the Mannekin Pis ... a little boy who is taking
a pee ... - Biggest disappointment if you come here as a tourist!
- Clearly this is what Language Tar is not about!
Janneke Pis which is the female version is a lot more kind of discrete
and hidden that's beside Delirium pub.
So Brussels is not just the capital of Belgium, Flanders the region, it's also
the capital of European institutions so you're gonna find that there are a lot
of people from all over Europe who live here. Most of the people who are actually
living in Brussels were not born in Belgium. So yeah, it's kind of a real
multicultural and multilingual mix here.
So one of the really great things
about Brussels is its chocolate and this is one of the best cities I think in the
world where you can go and find chocolatier. So let's go and take some
of that delicious Belgian chocolate!
[French] Good evening! - Good evening!
- What types of chocolate do you have? There are pralines ... what's the difference?
- So we have lots of types of chocolate. Here we have the tablets ('les tablettes').
Here we have the chocolate fondant (melting chocolate).
But we also have chocolates infused with different flavors like rose and violet etc.
And then we have the pralines which are a paste of dried fruit mixed with the chocolate.
- Great! Thanks very much! - With pleasure!
[Dutch] - Yes ... Dutch ... Good afternoon!
Typical for Belgium are the razor clams.
These are really typical for us, the razor clams.
We have the grilled fish with some wine and the aioli dip.
And we make our famous fish soup, of course.
A real Belgian dish is mussels and fries but we don't do fries here.
We don't cook fries here. We have a focus an the real seafood itself.
- [French] So the rosé is special, right? - Yes, it's got a raspberry taste, a little taste of raspberry.
And the white beer, here's the grand cru but it's a little shorter.
It's the best! - The best? - Yes, the best! That's true?
- For the French, it's wine and for the Belgians, it's beer. - Ok.
[English] - So that is Brussels. They were my few days here. Give this video a big thumbs up if
you liked it of course! Until the next video
it is 'tot ziens' which is 'goodbye' in Dutch. 'Au revoir' which is of course in French and
'Auf wiedersehen' which is in German, the third official language of Belgium.
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