Why Am I in Brussels, Belgium? First Impressions & Walking Tour 🇧🇪
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2022
- Why am I in Brussels? I spend a couple of days walking around Belgium's capital city, bringing you up to date with my travels.
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I'm Jason, a full-time British Travel Vlogger and TH-camr who's been to 55 countries. I've been travelling around the world full-time since 2017. So far, my trips have taken me to Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
I have travel series' from many of the world's best (and least) known destinations. I filmed the first vlogs on my channel in the summer of 2016 after spending a year living in China. A proper solo trip around Eastern Europe followed after graduating from University in the summer of 2017, taking me to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Kosovo. This trip marked the start of my efforts to make a TH-cam full-time job.
After that European trip I went heavily into exploring Asia, visiting India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea and Kazakhstan (seeing me cover a lot of Far East and Southeast Asia in particular).
I have also travelled to North Africa and the Middle East fairly extensively over the last five years, filming videos in Turkey, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and Palestine.
To date, I have not yet been to Australasia or South America. Though I am hoping to visit the latter sometime in 2022, along with a first stop in the Caribbean.
I've travelled to North America just once as a TH-camr, visiting Mexico in 2021. Though I have been to both the USA and Canada, this was as a child on family holidays.
So far in 2022, I've taken my first trip to Sub Saharan Africa, visiting both Kenya and Tanzania, before heading to the Middle East, stopping in Dubai and Lebanon. Europe followed, covering both the Greek and Turkish sides of Cyprus, and afterwards going back to Italy for the second time to cover Milan and Sicily. In the summer I visited the Caribbean for the first time, spending over a month in the Dominican Republic, before stopping in Belgium on my way home.
#brussels #belgium #europe
Thank you for putting my adoption city in the spotlights 🥰 I live in Brussels since a long time now and it is full of hidden gems unknown by the tourists. The most exquisite part of Brussels is the multicultural way of living. Thanks to the EU Commission and the NATO HQs, Brussels counts a lot of different nationalities, cultures and languages. And it is amazing to be able to mingle all together in one city which only count 1M citizens. Brussels is also one of the most green cities in the world thanks to the numerous parcs and even 2 forests in the city. I can only encourage everyone to come and taste the Brussels’ way of living, culture and gastronomy ♥️
Multiculturalism is killing my Belgian culture, nothing good about that. Even our traditions are getting canceled.... I will be leaving the country, thx to the politicians and the way to much immigrants who are flooding the country, i am already a minority in my own City!
I live in Brussels. I was born in Bruges. Your introduction was very informative, even for a local. 👍 Well done. You have Belgium's seal of approval. 🇧🇪 😊
Such an underrated country really!
As always, you’re the best travel blogger on TH-cam. Thank you
Loved my visit to Brussels a few years back. Enjoy!
I went to Brussels two months ago, and It was love at first sight.
Aaaah, wonderful, thank you. I live in Brussels. 🕊💕
Thanks again Jason. Another interesting place.I am a city person and enjoy your city walks. John in Chicago
Thank you dear Jason, for sharing your nice and wonderful experience in Belgium.... watched with great love always
Thank you for this video. It is so pleasant to visit the city with you. The quality of the picture and of the sound are perfect.
Jason, waiting anxiously for next journey video on your TH-cam. Looking forward to viewing it. Hope you doing well and everything is ok from your end.
Lovely! Cheers for more awesome and incredible globetrotting adventures!🥂❤️✨
Jason Billam, I think Brussels has a distinctive culture, history and architecture as well!
I love Belgians and Belgian chocolate is so delicious😋 I love it so much and I regularly go to eat belgian chocolate with my friends.
Much love to Belgium from Türkiye.
🇹🇷❤️🇧🇪 Hope one day visit it✌🏻
Good morning Can , don't worry l will send you melomakarona with chocolate on Christmas 😋☃️l wish a good day to you and Ryam🤍
@@kikis194 Good morning Kiki😊 hahaha thanks a lot I was happy to see this comment lol😅🍪 and also please don't forget bringing Kavala cookies as well on Christmas day I miss them so much that I haven't eaten for years. :) 😋 to you too and Ryam 🎉☃️❄️ 🌅
@@cank4312 I wrote this comment to you 3 times but TH-cam deleted.With some channels l have problems and some of my friends too l don't know why maybe you blocked me again Lol.You are chocoholic l will send you black ION chocolate its very healthy😋 Forget the cookies🍪 Lol
@@kikis194 I'm so sorry Kiki You're the last person to go through this😔, there are so many fake people and comments filled with grudges. There are a lot of people who don't really know that racism is a crime. 🙄
I don't receive your notifications any more I think TH-cam doesn't allow
:( lol yeah Let's just say I love milk desserts so much. My childhood was spent with pudding, cake and sweets lol 😅 I love also bitter chocolate Kiki don't worry😂😆especially before I take the exam I eat it:) No I have never blocked you 😁
Because if I do this, I will never see your positive comments that make me happy. 🍫🍮🍰 😋 I wish you wonderful days that make you as happy as eating healthy junk food. XD😄
Hum, just in case, "Türkiye" is called "Turkey" in English.
Hi Jason! This was very fun! Belgium is definitely a country I want to visit! I love the HUMOR of the popularity of 'Mannequin Piss' and don't think it's overrated at all! I like the way you couched it as a 'contrast' to the sophistication and 'seriousness' that Brussels also is. Those contrasting elements of the city actually make it even more interesting to me! Cheers!
The HUMOR is indeed why everyone loves him. The only problem with manneken pis (i'm from Brussels) is that most visitors imagine the statue to be much larger than it actually is. This is because the pictures always make him seem a lot bigger. In addition there are always many people crowded around the statue. It probably also doesn't help that shops in the city centre sometimes have copies of manneken piss about 10 times as big as the real statue. All in all manneken pis has been a dissapointment to almost every single one of my friends and family members who have visited Brussels. The Atomium, the Mont des arts, the Grand Place, Parc du Cinquantenaire, the ''marollen'' are all much more exciting tourist attractions. Manneken pis is the type of thing to tick of your list, watch for 20 seconds until you get bored, then move on.
Loved Belgium. Thanks for going there.
Brussels is awesome. I am going to visit it again next Tuesday.
The Old England Building (1899) is in Art Nouveau style, not Art Deco
I usually watch videos twice, one in daytime to enjoy the tour, the other as asmr with Jason's soothing voice.
thats crazy to think its your first time there. i travel a 10th as much and have been there 4 times.
A variety of nice scenes in this video captivate my attention and interest. I really enjoyed the content of this video.😀👍👍
Hi Jason Billam, thank you for sharing your video about your tour of Brussels, Belgium!
Thanks for making this great video. And for sharing us your transparent first impression about Brussels. Keep Safe and more power to your channel!
You are awesome bro I love your vlogging very much.thanks fro sharing your experience with us.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!!🥳🎉🎂🥂🍾🍻🥃🍸🍹🎁🎈🎆
Thank you!
Love the football content addition. You cover everything in most videos, food, drink, attractions, hidden treasures but sport was always missing! Keep it up 👍🏼
I have a little personal anecdote concerning the famous "Mannequin piss" when I visited Brussels decades ago.Arrived by train and then checked in to what seemed a nice hotel.Later in the day started to wander around the city looking for the statue without any success.Eventually returned to my hotel to discover it was virtually next to my hotel and i had failed to see it.!
Because it's tiny. Everyone is a bit disappointed when they discover how small manneken pis actually is.
I enjoy a lot your videos from all your journeys. Excellent, writng from Mexico City. Regards.
An awesome video, Jason! I really enjoyed this little tour of Brussels! The sights, the sounds and the food...especially those frits and mussels with beer! The Grand Place is beautiful! Glad you got to take in a football game! My only connection to Belgium is my grandfathers connection...he served there during the First World War. Hoping to see it myself when, someday, I go to Vimy Ridge in France and Germany, where we lived when I was a child as my Dad served there during the Cold War as part of Canada's RCAF agreement with NATO. Thanks for this, I am so glad you visited Brussels!😊
Hi Jason you should come in Liège it's small and beautiful city in Belgium , many interesting places to see , I can show you around for the places to visit/ eat ect ...
We landed @ airport, metro & trained it to our stay near the grand plaza! Very cool buildings, interesting how they turn old buildings into hotels, iPhone accessory store, etc.
Brilliant Video as Always Jason 👌. Loved the football content👍. I've Never been to Belgium , just Soooo Happy whenever I eat Belgian Chocolates 🤣☘.
Interesting - I have never been to Belgium either, and now want to go!
It looks like a wonderful place to visit. And we found out about your passion for football!
Brussels is way more than just the touristy city center. Ste Catherine, the canal, les Marolles, St Gilles, Ixelles, Forest, Schaerbeek, Etterbeek (to name a few great places) and all of the parks (Duden, Forest, Lacambre, Cinquantenaire, Josaphat, Laeken...), that's Brussels too. Not just the Grand Place and the European neighbourhood...
Wow
Thanks for sharing your experience, awesome vlog as always. Big fan of your channel since your visit to our country. Love & respect from Bangladesh
I really enjoyed this video. The areas you showed are absolutely beautiful.
Happy to hear it!
Love Belgian chocolate! Brussels looks beautiful, but I would love to visit.
Add it to the list!
Brussels is good (especially the Grand Place is one of the best town squares in the world and Atomium is unique) but I think that other Belgian destinations are very underrated in tourist marketing (except for Brugge that is really a fairy-tale town). When I was in Belgium this year, I enjoyed very much Ghent (Gravensteen, Graslei and St. Bavo Church are amazing), Antwerp (Rubenshuis is one of the most amazing art sights anywhere and I loved some Dutch-liked alleys in the old part of the town near Schelde River and Het Steen), Dinos in the Sand exhibition of sand sculptures in Middelkerke on North Sea coast (it is only 20 mins with tram from Oostende train station), Mechelen and Leuven. Belgian railway system is one of the best in the world, I liked it very much.
Of course, there are also many good sights nearby, like Alsace with fairytale towns Strasbourg, Colmar, Riquewihr, Eguisheim and Kaysersberg and then it comes the Netherlands with such amazing North Holland (Volendam, Zaanse Schans) and some other charming cities like Gouda and Delft in South Holland. I can say that this is maybe my favourite part of the Europe, along with Italian Dolomites, Romania and, of course, my homeland Slovenia. ;)
Belgium looks nice indeed, but the problem is its people. Brussels is almost as dangerous as Paris, and in Flanders people will be hostile if they hear that you're speaking French..
Yes but also the Ardennes,Han ,Rochefort,its woods ,its gastronomy...
Vayan a cualquier sitio de Bélgica menos a Bruselas, delincuencia y las calles llenas de mierda y vagabundos, capital europea para eso...
Thanks for sharing this information!
@@przemekh4857 Ofc, i live in vilvoorde and the bad influence of brussels is spreading into the surrounding city's. If you come in flanders you speak dutch and you dont speak french or arabic
You should definitely visit other belgian cities like Brugges, Antwerp, Gent, Belgian Ardennes (countryside) and Namur or Liège for a Wallonian city. What's great is that you could visit the whole country in a week or less, it's small but very diverse
Very very impressed with Brussels and actually amazed how beautiful it is . I will tell you who I follow but I reckon you can work it out lol cheers for a really really interesting video 👍
The Grand Place - please can we get the local accent - is fantastic at Christmas. The Rue des Bouchers is brilliant for food. Rural Belgium in the Ardennes is wonderful as are the cities of Liege, Leuven and Ghent.
The rue des Bouchers (Butchers Street) is a known tourist trap.
Wouldn't mind seeing more of Europe here 😊
I was thinking the same thing. We can't relate to his videos lately because the places that he visits are not the places that we as travelers want to visit.
Mr. Jason. I'm a frequent visitor of your channel. One day you should visit Sri Lanka, my country
Another great video! Thank-you. I'm surprised you only made 4 vids in the Dominican? All excellent as usual.
I was in Brussels a couple months ago on a quick vacation. I got around the tourist crowds by going out at sunrise. Sadly, I am too old to enjoy the nightlife 😂 Thank you for your content.
Video is very nice 👌 Jason billam bro
Great video mate! I’m planning to visit Brussels too very soon, heard very good things about it 👍 please share more info about it 🙏
Welcome to my home country of Belgium Jason!
Manneken Pis, aside from being a symbol for the typical Brussels "defiant spirit" has also become a true symbol of what we call "Belgitude".
It is hard to explain, but is something in the realm of the Absurd, where you expect something grand and it is actually laughable, and is a reflection of our spirit as Belgians (we tend to not take ourselves too seriously as a "Nation")
You have a nice home! I'm envious.
Wow Belgium was always synonymous with prestige
Nice video 👍
A sweet video like these chocolates. Splendid.
Jason Billam, I think Belgium has great chocolates as well!
Nice room and furnishings.Great snacks for cocoa lovers and kids
The Old England building is of "Art Nouveau " style , not "Art Déco".
And I remember when it was stiil an english fashion store .
Hi Jason. Do you remember the name of the restaurant where you had your mussels and fries? Would love to eat there when we visit at Christmas!
Wonderful nice sharing ❤️
TUI's pronounced Toohey, like the Australian beer. 🍺😁
Thank you for share this with us Beauty guy 🎉
Bonjour Jason. I hope you also visit Paris France!
Brussels is the only city in Europe I've been to that I felt genuinely unsafe. Parts of it are really nice but a lot of it is very grubby and unpleasant. Ghent and Antwerp were a lot more interesting to me.
it's because you're an afraid chicken.
Brought back lovely memories from about 10 years ago!
Liked the main square but agree with you that the Manneken Pis is very overated. Our tour guide raved over it ,but I thought ....is that it !!
I didn't even know it wasn't the original !
The chocolate shops smell amazing and tempt you in 🙂 and although waffle shops are everywhere, I don't think we tried them . Saw some laden with strawberries and cream , but I didn't know how to manage to eat one while walking round. Well done. Mine would have ended up (in part at least) down my t shirt !
Glad you enjoyed your visit.
Still managed to get chocolate around my mouth though!
I'm from Brussels and I approve your video
Very beautiful city
Wonderful sharing
Waaaw that's great
Been there many times in my younger days, used to trip to Belgium France Amsterdam and Berlin night life was fantastic in all 4 countries especially liked to bars just off the main square in Belgium love the atmosphere people were lovely, only country i was mugged in lol, that's not taken anything away from the people from Belgium they were lovely, and good to see you had lovely weather 😃
The people who mug tourists are not Belgians. They're brown immigrants.
@@Leopold_van_Aubel True, same as intimidating and robbing Belgians even if they are wrong. Doing racistic happy slapping against belgians in own country because its a belgian.... Things have changed, i would have liked to live here in the 90s But soon i will be leaving the country. 43% Belgians in my city.... 18% is original belgian in Brussels, neighbour city is 40% Belgians....
@@arizotje I'm thinking more and more about leaving as well... Precisely because of that.
We loved Brussels in January. Because they kept all the decorations up later. And the square was beautiful. We only had a few days and you just know that there is so much more to it. I was also deeply sad that we were leaving Europe. And I felt shame when people in the bars and restaurants asked us why? I am still European. Thanks to My Mum Irish born. I was lucky 🍀 to get a new passport. Many of my friends feel a profound loss. And I am sorry for those that did not wish to leave. Brexit to me was a very poor choice.
great jason
I hope all is well, I miss your informative video's!
BRUSSEL IS GEWELDIG
MERCI GRAZIE THANKS WUNDERBAR
BELGIË IS EEN FIJN LAND
MET FIJNE MENSEN .
Nice town!
So beautiful.
I love brussels. Under rated. Try
ton ton garby. He is great
I'm going there in few weeks
from Brussells you have the EuroStar, as far as I know.
12.36 the way she is looking behind you 😁
European Parliament is a fantastic place!
Welcome to Brussels Belgium
Belgium interesting. I wonder if you want to the grand Prix in spa Belgium?
Greetings Jason.
Wish i could travel like you
I’m also fond of Ciney !
thank you
Hey J, how was the Dom Rep trip? Did the Mamajuana work? New York City sub.
Cantillon brewery is unreal. Worth a stop
Where is cantilon brewery
Brussels, definitely underrated, but also definitely not for everyone... Good video!
13:32 - Armadillos!
I was at that game. 😎
Are you still in Belgium Jason? If you need some useful tips don't bother to reply here! Greetings from Bruges.
Great video, Brussels looks beautiful, especially on a sunny day! But please don't drink alcohol
I’m glad you exited the EU HQ quickly.
No place for British citizens there after that shameful performance of some of them.
Jason Billam, this is your first time in Brussels, Belgium?
Brussels looks nice in your video, maybe its changed, my lasting memory of is the smell of urine the underpasses were used as toilets
It's still there
Hoping you will do more europe like france or germany
Noted
I hope you come back, seems you have not vlogged over a month.? Missing your great videos!😊
Brussel very nice
Hi Jason, can I have a guess that your visa is for India? I travel to India in November and can only get a visa personally. Thank you for the inspiration I go to Marakesh and Fez next week then Erbil in February. 😁👌
Lovee from Bangladesh
You fly from Dominican Republic to Belgium, Jason?
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Hi Jason, do you play *Cricket* ? Cricket is very famous and popular sport in South Asia... Gave by british. I love Cricket ❤️