The
starts with great anticipation of getting my plans for the day accomplished. The
first thing on my list is to go for my research work at the Cantillon brewery. Kay
and I set to motion and hit the Metro. I was wondering how the traditional brewery
is going to look like. Two stops on our
way going, we had to return to the hostel because the “camera has borrowed Kay’s
laptop its memory”. We rushed back to the hostel to get memory card, then
straight to the Cantillon brewery.
It
was difficult to locate the brewery using Brussels map. I had to utilize my technical
skills of geography to this small but complicated map using different landmarks
represented on the map. Finally, we arrived at this traditional brewery and I first
thought it just a warehouse where they store beers. But to my surprise it is
actually where the home of the famous Lambic beer. We went through the
different stages of production of the beer. It was an interesting thing to know
that the brewery has been in existence since 1900 and now it’s managed by the
fourth generation of the family.
Left
the brewery about 1pm, then we went to Loiuse galleria mall for the retail comparison
assignment. We observed several stores such as Hugo Boss, Versace, Tiffany and
co. among others. I did some pricing and enter some store to have a little bit
of an insight of their customer service. After that, we took some walk round
this part of the city and got to a place where we had a panorama of Brussels.
My
lunch at happy fish restaurant was funny because the attendant doesn’t speak
English. Thank God the guy that stood beside helped in interpreting the café attendant
question to English for me. Otherwise, I would have gone somewhere else to eat.
This made me see and understand how language proficiency can boost your sales
when in an environment that requires been multilingual. From there, I went for
my last task of the day which is my last interview in Brussels. The store named
“De Biertempel”. Belguim is known as the homeland of beers while the De
Biertempel is a retail store for all Belgium beers. The guy I met there was
super busy but I managed my way to ask him some few question. I returned back
to the hostel at about 6.30pm fulfilled having accomplished all tasks for the
day.
