Hello lovelies,

I'm a bit late to the (tea) party but here is my experience from the Belgian Tea party from March 2026. I have written about the days following up to the tea party and my lace trip through Gent, Brussels, and Bruges. 

But the real reason we went to Brussels was the Tea party "A royal affair". Picture from the Instagram @a.royal.affair.event

 

The tickets were 110€ a piece and were sold out immediately. I vividly remember sitting in front of the laptop, my heart beating, and suddenly my new debit card wouldn't let me pay. Payment worked with my visa card but these were absolutely horrifying 2 minutes. lol. 

It was also announced that Misako Aoki would come as a special guest and I was super excited as I had never seen her live before. 

So, that was the prequel to the story and roughly 2 months after buying the tickets we were in Brussels and ready for the tea party. 

We started the day with a long breakfast at a cafe just across the street from our hotel. The breakfast items looked amazing and they also had vegan options. 

Friend of mine is obsessed with Eggs Benedict and she somehow infected the whole friend group. So my breakfast was a nice plate of eggs Benedict. 

 

And Hias had a bread with mushroom and avocado. Both dishes were delicious. 

It actually took quite a long time as we waited outside for 15-20minutes before we could get a seat. Then the food took a while and after we finished eating we only had an hour left to get ready. The shock and horror! We quickly got ready and I had to improvise my hairdo as I had planned something elaborate but ran out of time. 

I don't think it looked half bad. Apart that it only looks like a simply updo. lol. 

The event was at la maison du cygne which was located at Grote Markt. You can imagine that we were the #1 tourist magnet that day.

(c) a royal affair

 Once we entered we got a bag of goodies and immediately stood in the vendors hall. I had no budget for more trinkets so I quickly fled into the first floor. 

While standing outside we got to do pictures with the photographer and I think they turned out fancy. Hias is disappearing into the dark background a bit but I'm the beacon of light again. 

 

And of course we made some funny pictures with the whole group. I'm happy that so many of my fellow Austrian Lolitas attended because I'm super introverted and I have a really bad time talking to new people. I think I only chatted to one other person I followed on Instagram for a very long time.

My camera started reflecting the light into the camera as I have a small tear in the display. therefore some pictures have that weird reflection. 

 

And here two pictures from Instagram, these two lovely lolitas wanted to take pictures, so we did!  

You were able to take pictures with the special guest too and it was only 10€. My work colleague said Misako looked like 15?? She looks young but definitely not underage lol.

 Then we had a Q&A, an auction, and best dressed contest, in three categories: gothic, sweet, and classic.  

We also did a group picture were we tried to ignore all the tourists that took pictures of us. That was so annoying.

Picture by https://www.instagram.com/aoitoribe/

After the even we made even more pictures and then, sadly, had to leave again. 

The light in this niche was nice so we made a few pictures!  

 And this became my new favourite picture of Hias and me! We look adorable. 

 

And even more pictures outside. 

After we arrived at the hotel we felt a bit empty and melancholic. We decided to change and then roam the city a bit. The others were eating delicious mussels but because Hias couldn't eat anything, we decided to not go to dinner with them. A decision I regretted dearly as I love eating seafood, that we went to the same restaurant the next day to eat mussels. Or, for me to eat mussels. Hias had french fries. 

 

Brussels in the evening is super pretty, at least the grote markt. I remember living at Brussels Zuid the last time I visited and thought it looked very ugly. 

 

We had a small dinner and then waffles at Maison des Gaufres because they looked fancy. And then we settled into our comfy beds to craft or read. 

And that was the Belgian tea party! 

The next day we just went for mussels and waffles, roamed around the palace, and then flew back to Vienna. It was not really a noteworthy day. We wanted to go to Museums but had forgotten that they were closed on a Monday. 

 

And with this, you have seen all there is to see from out Belgian lace and lolita trip. 

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 Hello lovelies, 

 

it's time for a new video!

It's already in the post about the Belgian lace but I wanted to add it to a separate post too because it can be quickly be overseen:

 Enjoy!

  

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Hello lovelies, 

and here is part 2 of the Italian diaries with Day 4. It was already a picture heavy post so I decided to do Day 5+6 in a separate post as especially day 5 would be picture heavy again with us going to the Uffizi. 

Day 4

During the night a big mosquito bit me. Not once, not twice, but three times on my face. It was not itchy but it was red and a bit swollen. Luckily it was nothing a bit of makeup couldn't fix. In the morning we found the devil's fly perched on my side of the headboard and killed it. It was full with my delicious blood. Yuck.  

But that did not dampen my mood as we were visiting Palazzo Pitti that day. The outer structure is like a fortified castle, it doesn't look inviting at all. But once you enter, you are in a completely different world.

We still had our Florence card that we used for the entry. The regular price would have been 16€ per person. We were just in time for a tour through the royal apartments. 

 

 

 

The apartments were stunning. It's exactly how I would love my flat to look like too. I also thought it was very interesting that all rooms had a different colour scheme. The Queen's bedroom was blue and the King's bedroom was yellow, the salon was red but the queen's salon was also yellow. 

We quickly went through the rest of the other museums as we had seen it already and were famished and had our minds full with food and not the heart to look at another painting. 

One of my three favourite saints: Saint Agat(h)a, alongside with Saint Appolinia, depicted with a tooth and Saint Lucia, depicted with her eyes. lol

 

We crossed ponte vecchio to get to the other side in search for a restaurant. Then we randomly chose one that was medium priced and looked nice and we were so lucky, because the food was amazing. It was the best food from our whole trip. 

 That was my primi! It was so much and so good. I just love seafood. 

I can't seem to recall the name of the dessert. 

Afterwards we rolled into the Museo di Palazzo Vecchio. Last time we did not enter because there were some works being done. This time they still had some works but as we had the Florence card we decided to enter anyway. And it was stunning! But very confusing paths and doors. 

You may not have realized this but I am a big fan of beautiful ceilings.   

And that...was not the last museum. We had a quick cannoli snack and then went to the Palazzo Medici Riccardi where we finally saw one of Hias's favourite paintings.

I'm pretty sure you know exactly why he is in love with the time? It's fancy and colourful Italian Renaissance clothing. 

 The museum herself was not that big, at least you were not allowed to go into a lot of room. 

But I'm glad we could see the most beautiful room in the house. Just look at the fresco.

I'm not sure why the wand was made out of glass because my clumsy butt would drop it immediately after holding it for a second but the work is elaborate and so pretty. I actually want one. 
 

The building also had a few beautiful ceilings:

 But that was really the last museum we went to. We just grabbed some snacks for dinner at the local supermarket and went back to our hotel. Our feet were dead but our minds were full and that was a great day

I wore my Leur Getter cat dress again but with lighter colours instead of black. It was the only day during all of my Italy stay that I did not get a compliment. haha. I was already used to that (albeit I never get compliments in Vienna).

 

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