European Tour

Suitcase roulette in Brussels. We are 1 for 3.

BRUSSELS - Our mini European tour, with planned stops in Budapest and Vienna, added an unexpected stop over in the EU capital of Brussels. Bad weather and snow have screwed up flights all over Europe, and our flight out of Marseille was one of the hundreds of victims. We missed our evening connection in Brussels and had to be re-booked on a flight the next morning to Budapest.

Only one of our 3 bags showed up in Brussels and had to take a train 20 minutes to the (quite pleasant) town of Leuven in freezing midnight weather to get to the hotel where the airlines put us up. The next morning we left for Budapest not knowing if our bags were with us, but with credit cards in hand confident that we could always shop our way through this dilemma.

Small consolation: Our hotel in Leuven looks out over the HQ of the world's largest beer maker, AB InBev (mountains of Stell and Bud so close but yet so far)