America is pretty different from Europe. Not only do they have such crazy innovations as “walkable cities,” but they also have functioning public transit that means you don’t need to drive a car, even if you really, really want to.
However, this can present an issue for Americans traveling across the ocean. We ask, “Why can’t we just drive up to our hotel? Why are we reduced to this?”
In this video, TikToker Alexa writes, “When you travel to Europe with giant suitcases, and no one warns you about the roads with no cars and cobblestone floors, so your husband has to drag our 50-pound suitcases through the whole city to our hotel.”
The horror! No one told her that the city had cobblestones and now she has to *gulp* walk?! This is why we threw the tea into the harbor, damn it!
Well, this story gets a little more complicated. I have no idea where their hotel was, but I was immediately irked by her claim that her husband had to drag the suitcases through the whole city (and the fact that she calls roads “floors”). So, using my best GeoGuessr skills, I was able to figure out that the video was filmed here, in central Brussels.
Not only is it painfully easy to figure out that this area has cobblestones, but there are actually roads surrounding it that allow cars. Getting through this walking area takes, at most, around 15 minutes, meaning that her husband was likely only shamefully dragging their suitcases for a matter of minutes.
But most importantly, if you were really so annoyed about this, you probably should have just carried one of the bags instead of making a TikTok.
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