Chocolate, Connectivity and Working in Brussels
I'm sitting in my hotel room in Brussels by the window, with my room door propped open so I don't suffocate from heat. The breeze keeps my mind alert to work. After nearly three hours of wrangling last night with the weary front desk guy, I got my room changed so I could connect to the internet. He refused to believe that the rooms at the front of the hotel (the nicer balcony view rooms) were not getting signal from their wireless system and that there was only signal towards the back. I think he must have thought "another crazy American." I was so hot and tired, I was more insane than crazy, but I knew I had to work online all of today. SO for 30 euros (ouch) I have access. Lesson? Don't trust the line "we have internet access." Ask about the conditions.
The only thing that saved the day was a walk to the center and a small bag of dark chocolates. I think I shall have to walk back there today.
posted by Nancy White at 3:19 AM
4 Comments:
Hi Nancy - If you're in Bru for long, and need a distraction, I can heartily recommend (having spent a few years there myself) you eat at Le Fin de Siecle - it's a stone's throw from the Grand Place, but another world entirely. Everything good about Belgium in one place.
Ah, so it's hot and muggy in Brussels. Will opt for casual short-sleeved dress code then. Thanks for the heads up, Nancy! See you tomorrow.
Lambkins, it would just about kill me to pop thirty euros for the internet. . . I hope that is not a daily rate.
How nice of you to not name the hotel!
xo
Hi Nancy was nice meeting you in Brussels, you were exactly as I had expected! I think the blog, online interactions and multiple pictures/videos really helped to create a similar image from you as face-to-face.
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