Brussels, Belgium, June 22nd 2026
Part 3: After 2 days in Holland, we now have 2 days in Brussels in Belgium. We take the train this time, that’s only 2 hours from Schiphol and we booked an hotel next to the train station in Brussels for 2 nights.
Every other week I have to work on Monday’s. Today was a work Monday, but I took today off.
Jo helped us again. thank you so much!!!
It’s going to be 30 degrees today! apply sunscreen, turn and drink plenty!
Our alarm goes off at 7. I have to get Roos ready for school. Her daddy does the rest. We have breakfast, pack our last stuff and just before 8 we leave to the bus stop in Getsewoud by car. When we parked the car, we walk towards the bus stop. The bus is already coming. This goes smoothly. Love it.
Only 20 minutes to Schiphol Airport. We get a Starbucks and wait at platform 5-6. Just after 9 the train arrives. As I said it’s only 2 hours by train. I’ve to go to the toilet, but they seem locked. Not occupied, but actually locked. Damn. But after about an hour it gets unlocked. I understand why it’s closed tho. It’s disgusting. No toilet paper either. Oh dear.
Just after 11 we arrive in Brussels. The hotel is next door. The room isn’t ready tho. We walk towards the centre. We see Kevin. We say hello. Then we walk towards the venue. We see the tour busses. Everyone (except Kevin) is still asleep. It’s very quiet here.
We try to find the Irish pub where we were back in 2019. O’Reilly’s… That was the one. We have some lunch and something to drink. But it’s very warm outside, we sit inside. We see Tim and Cassell walking by. Probably towards their hotel.
After our lunch we walk to a chocolate shop. I can’t visit Belgium without their delicious Belgium chocolate. Can’t buy too much tho… it will melt.
We walk back, to find a metro, we go back to the hotel to check in. Omg there is Mike. I recognised his walk lol. Let’s say hello. He is on his way to get breakfast. Enjoy, we just had ours. We go to the hotel. Will see you later.
The metro is only 5 minutes. It stops right in front of our hotel. Perfect. We chill for a bit. Take a shower, charge our phone and power bank. We tried to do a nap.
At 4, we take the metro again into the city centre. We go back to O’Reilly’s. The terrace has shade now. We sit outside. We have some nachos and a few drinks.
Wayne walks by. We have a chat and a hug. Then Kevin and Cassell walk by they wave and say hello. Also Gabriel walks by and waves. Kevin walks back, he makes a photo of us. It’s usually the other way around. Then Gabriel walks by again. We have a chat and a hug. Then Kevin walks by again. He waves and smiles.
We join the queue at 6:30. There is shade now. Still warm tho. Cassell walks by, he waves. Also Baz, Keith and 2 other crew. Baz gives a hug. Just after 7 the doors open. We get our tickets. And we go inside.
We take some water on the way in. We’re up front again. I buy a tour T-shirt. And I join Ozzy again up front. Then it’s time to wait.
The support act Ila is not so nice, don’t like them. Luckily it only half an hour.
We meet 2 lovely guys. 1 is born in Holland, moved to Sweden. When he was very young. The other one is Irish, he’s from a town near Dublin. Both lovely guys. Would have loved to see them after again. Wonder what they think of the show.
Just before 9 the Streets start. When the curtain falls, the boys start playing and the bus stop comes in sight, it still gives me goosebumps.
Mike walks down the stairs and sees us and looked at us like “It’s you again”, but he knew we were there, he saw us earlier lol I got a hug from him.
I bought a hand fan in Tilburg at Primark yesterday, that’s the best €3,50 I’ve ever spend. Mike seems to enjoy it. He came over a few times to use it, or I used it on him.
With dry your eyes Mike holds my chin, like he sings about “Touch the bottom of her chin and let out a sigh”
At the end Roo was waving her hand like a fan, cos there was no AC in the building. So I used the fan on her, obviously it was too far away, but she pretended it to be really good.
After the gig, Art gave me the setlist. Thank you so much!!
We went to the toilet and then we went outside. We went back to O’Reilly, the Irish pub we were in earlier. Most of the boys walked by.
Ozzy got hungry after a while. So he got a burger at McDonalds. When we walked there we saw Wayne, Roo, Kevin and another lovely lady. When we came back, they had left. We decided to go back to the hotel. It’s a 30 minute walk. We’d better start walking.
On our way, we past the tour busses, but also a pub. And most of the boys were there. Cassell and Wayne told us to get a drink and join them, so we did. It was such a lovely evening. But the bar owner started playing The Streets. Everybody left very quickly after that. they even left their beers half full. So we left as well. And they closed the pub, they probably meant to do that haha. Oh well. Will see the boys and Roo for part 4 in Brussels again tomorrow.
It’s a 30 minute walk, but it doesn’t feel to bad after a few drinks. Although Ozzy doesn’t agree LOL. He was complaining for half an hour LOL. At 2ish we arrived at the hotel. Good night all. See you tomorrow.
