A.M. Sweet, I adore you!

It was such a beautiful morning! Today the first thing I saw was the sunlight coming from my large windows. Seeing the sun in Belgium - summer or winter - is a really big deal; and most of the time a sign for a nice day.
My plan was to meet with Heini (my Finnish friend) for a cup of coffee and then go to Cinematek to see "Kind Hearts and Coronets". It didn't really go as it was planned but it was a really nice day.

Although I decided to immediately go out to see Brussels under the sun for a change, I managed to loiter until the meeting time. Somehow I managed to drag Gert-Jan with me and we were in front of the Bourse at 14.30. Fortunately the Christmas market was set up yesterday and the idea of glühwein got hold of us. After Heini joined us we took a nice promenade in the market with out hot wines. So far so good.

As I wrote earlier, the plan was to go see a movie at 16.00 but at last moment Heini realized that she forgot the print-out of the tickets at home. Until we managed to get them printed again and reach Cinematek, it was 16.05 and the lovely receptionist didn't let us in to watch the movie... Obviously, it wasn't meant to be.


So we went back to the center and walked around a bit, saw the Christmas tree in the middle of Grand Place and loved it! Last year there were those horrible blue fluorescents on the tree but this year they managed to establish a more descent decoration with blinking white lights (well Heini did not really like the fact that they were blinking but anyway)..

Then, then, then we went to one of my favorite places in Brussels, AM Sweet! This is a tea room with all kinds of tea (black, green, red) with all kinds of aromas, fruits, flowers, etc. And one shouldn't forget the wonderful homemade pies! Thanks to out "Marco Polo vert" and chocolate pie, we were back in our jolly moods although we had too much difficulty in communicating in French :) (sorry but this is the only photo of the place I could find on the internet)

All of my friends and guests have enjoyed this little tea room since it's the first place I can think of when I need to go to a café. You can imagine how hard it is to make people drink tea since everyone around me describe themselves as a "coffee person".
So I'm addressing to the coffee people now: please go AM Sweet and try one of the teas accompanied by a piece of pie. You won't regret it!