Xiao Peng really wanted to put the car down and experience the local transportation in Belgium, but he didn't let the dog get in the car, so he had no choice but to continue driving.

Belgium is such a small country, but the railways are very developed. The railways here are more like buses, and there are train stations almost everywhere. The speed is not fast, much worse than the high-speed rail in Huaxia, and it is more like the 'green leather train' in the early years.

But the best thing about Belgium is also the truck, where you buy a train ticket, for example, if you buy a round-trip ticket between two cities, you can get on the train at any time during the day, get off the bus halfway, and then find a time to get on again. Unlike other countries where you have to get on and off at the time and stop.

This is also understandable, as Belgian trains are almost always on and whenever they are on the train. If you do this in Huaxia, you really have to learn three and run to the top of the train to stay.

Don't look at Belgium as small, but it really takes a lot of time to get to the end of it. The reason is simple, it is a religious country, full of churches and monasteries. The three girls are all devout believers, and they have to go to every church or monastery, and Xiao Peng is naturally no exception.

However, Xiao Peng's purpose in going to the monastery was not to visit for any faith, his purpose was more purely ------ monastery beer.

In Belgium, every monastery has its own abbey beer, which is also sold, but the best craft abbey beer can only be drunk in monasteries. Xiao Peng was able to solve his hunger all the way.

When I arrived at the monastery, I put the car at the door and listened to it, went in to taste the beer and appetite here, and if it was delicious, he turned it upside down, lay down in the car and slept and continued to move forward.

Later, Xiao Peng and others had already become well-known in this monastery circle, and some remote monasteries were afraid that Xiao Peng would not find his place, so they sent people to the intersection to greet him with signs.

Don't look at Belgium's per capita is the highest in Europe, with a per capita income of about 3,000 euros, but this is a standard high-tax and high-welfare country, and you have to pay almost 50% of the personal income tax, and it is more than 1,500 euros in your hand。。。。。。 A bold traveler like Xiao Peng, no one wants to miss it.

In fact, Belgium has been very powerful since the Middle Ages, Bruges was the high-tech center and financial center of the whole of Europe at that time, and Bruges and Venice were comparable to New York and London today. Even today, Bruges' imitations have swept the world, and Xiao Peng bought a lot of Belgian tapestries in Bruges, which is also the most awesome Belgian product. To this day, there is also a saying that if the wealthy families in European countries do not hang a few Belgian tapestries, they are embarrassed to say that they have been renovated.

Later, Belgium became an industrial power, and since the Industrial Revolution, the coal mining areas in the south and east, as well as the iron ore areas on the border with Gaul, have become a single area, and it is difficult to develop without development.

At that time, Belgium was the first country in Europe to build a railway, and of course it was a major manufacturer of automobiles. At that time, the automobile industry was the pillar industry of Belgium, and the Belgian car brand was two years earlier than BMW, and in the whole of Europe, second only to Gaul and Germania.

However, now Belgium no longer has its own car brand, but the automobile industry is still the pillar industry of Belgium, due to the geographical location in the center of Western Europe, and the quality of employees is also high, so what Volvo, Audi are here to produce cars, especially Volvo's factory, which can be called the world's most advanced factory, all production automation, the whole factory does not have many people.

The point is that Belgium has the Port of Antwerp, which is the second largest port in all of Europe, after the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

At the same time, it is also the largest port in Gaul, there are many ports in Gaul, but all the ports in Gaul are not as large as the port of Antwerp in terms of transshipment cargo. The port has driven the logistics industry such as railways and passenger transportation, and the port industry will always be a good friend of the petrochemical industry. With these, it is difficult for Belgium not to be rich!

At the same time, in addition to being a port city, Antwerp is also a fashion capital, because it is the world's largest diamond trading and processing base, known as the 'diamond capital', with a daily jewelry turnover of about 150 million US dollars! an annual turnover of more than 45 billion US dollars! For every ten diamonds in the world, seven lessons are processed here.

Belgium has also taken this opportunity to bring the diamond industry chain to the extreme, there are two kinds of banks here, one is an ordinary financial bank, and the other is a special diamond bank, specializing in diamond trade, diamond mortgage and other businesses.

Huaxia's Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has a branch in Antwerp and has cooperated with the local diamond bank. It is not surprising that Belgium's offshore financial business is very large, and its biggest customer is the Chinese government。。。。。。 (Ahem, I didn't say that.) ）

It is said that Paris is the 'fashion capital', and London is not bad, but what people don't know is that many of the top designers are fashion design students from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium.

From 1988, when a group of six students drove their creations uninvited to London Fashion Week in a humble rented truck for their first fashion show, Belgian fashion designers came into the public eye, and these six are still known today as the 'Antwerp Six'.

Nowadays, the creative directors of many big brands are designers from Antwerp, such as Ralph Simmons, the design director of Dior, who designed the wedding dress of the 'Six Gentlemen' baby.

Xiao Peng has been in Belgium for so long, and the most incomprehensible thing is not anything else, but the Belgians themselves. The brain circuits of people here are sometimes amazed to a certain extent. The Gauls' favorite thing to do is to scold the Belgians for being stupid.

For example, one day, Xiao Peng accidentally saw a local news report about a man tattooing his lover's portrait on his back to express his love.

This is very normal, right? If it is placed in Huaxia, this woman will be moved for at least three or five seven days, right? As a result, his wife was fine, angry, saying that the man's behavior was disrespectful to her, and he actually divorced him!

At this time, the correct way for a man is to wash off the tattoo or cover it with other patterns, right? Otherwise, how can I find a wife? As a result, this man is good, and directly said: Although I tattooed her head and made my ex-wife unhappy and left me, I will not remove the tattoo, I want my ex-wife to be on me forever. That way I won't be alone when I'm making out with my new lover。。。。。。 (Threesome in disguise?)

Xiao Peng also scolded the Belgians for being stupid, but it was definitely not because of getting along with the Belgians, but because of the Belgian highways.

As a small country with a well-developed railway, Belgium's highways are actually very good, the road conditions are great, and they are not crowded. But there is one thing that is unbearable, and that is the signs on the highway.

A sign is densely packed with countless characters, and when you see it clearly, you won't know you missed the crossing。。。。。。 Do you dare to be a little more stupid?

Fortunately, Yumi knew the way, otherwise he would have been able to go all the way to the ditch。。。。。。 What? Navigation in Belgium? Please! There is no 4G network in the whole country of Belgium! Wi-Fi is similar to 3G, it is slow and not easy to use. Counting on navigation? That's how you can really go in the ditch!

"Youmei, where are we going?" Xiao Peng asked Youmei, who was driving.

Yumi didn't answer him, but smiled slightly: "You'll know when you arrive." ”

Xiao Peng pursed his lips and sat in the co-pilot's seat: "You Mei, someone wanted to hitchhike just now, why didn't you stop?"

Yumei kicked her eyes: "Honey, don't you see that he is a Muslim?

Jimma walked over from behind with two beers, handed Xiao Peng a glass, and said to You Mei with a smile: "You Mei, you are suspected of racial discrimination when you say that." ”

Yumi was silent for a while, and then said, "Shall I tell you a story?"

Yali also walked over from behind: "Have a story to hear?

"Last year, my agent and I went to Brussels for work reasons and saw a Muslim man on the street with a sign at his feet that said, 'I am a Muslim, I believe in you, if you believe in me, please give me a hug'. He was there to give a speech blindfolded. I still remember the content of his speech to this day. Yumi said.

"Here's what he said: 'Belgians, I am a Muslim refugee who came here from Syria a month ago, and today I have a few words to say to you, I know that there has just been a terrorist attack in Brussels by the Mousli extremists, and as a Muslim, I am sorry and very much disgusted by what the extremists are doing'. ”

"When he said this, many people were watching him, and he continued to speak, 'What I want to tell you is that Islam is essentially a religion of peace, most Muslims are very good people, extremists are only a very small minority, I am a Muslim, but I am not a terrorist, I am blindfolded now, out of trust in everyone, I believe that you will not hurt me, if you are willing to be friendly with a kind Muslim like me, please come and hug me'. ”

Xiao Peng took a sip of beer: "Isn't that very good? I just mean, don't look at people with colored glasses, we have many Muslims in China, everyone is a good person! Why, did you go up and hug him?"

You Mei tilted her head and glanced at Xiao Peng and continued to drive, and said leisurely: "I had already arrived at the appointed time, and there were a lot of people at the scene, and work was more important, so I could only squeeze out of the crowd, cross the street, and prepare to go to the fashion magazine located across the road." ”

Yali asked, "And what happened later?"

"Later?" Yumi said with a wry smile, "Later, the man suddenly ripped off his clothes and shouted 'Allahu Akbar', detonating the bomb on his body. My agent was hit by a bomb fragment and lost one eye. ”

Xiao Peng: "。。。。。。。 Or is it better to be in China。。。。。 ”