Adele / Chez Adele - a student bar

The Adele is the closest (student) bar to my place. You have to know about these places, that they're still smelly in the afternoons from the night before, you have a feeling when entering like you're in your clothes from the last night and you get an instant hangover, so just carefully. The beer served here is the same as the other student bars: 1,5 € for 2 dl plastic glasses, but at least this is Leffe, which is another level than the usual Jupiler. In the daytime the park before is full with picnic tables, and the tables are full with the members and wannabe members of the Cercle de Droit, the lawyers elite club. In the night there is the best music I've been still, so at least you can listen the refrains before the remixing. :) Yeah, and very satisfying, inspite of the crowd I didn't get any beer on my clothes or hair.


Here I have 2 very good memories: one, that after a good meeting and Pálinka night with my kot-mates we had the best party so far, so that's why I love this place. The other is the one, when I met a guy from the Cercle, got a free beer and a small LLN history about these famous hats. Hats? They're not hats!! They're Calottes. This is an old tradition in the Belgian universities, and changes per place. It differs in LLN, in Mons and Brussels too. If you did your Baptéme, it means you're part of the elite club, and within a ceremonial celebration you get your Calotte empty. After every finished semester you get a golden star, and you get silver star after the failed ones. And of course, you can grace the Calotte with anything personal, you want, but the golden pins only can got from the older Circle members for a special achievement. As I understood well, there are various achievements, that you can reach, for example you get some golden letter, animal or symbol for many reasons: for being an asshole or unashamed, funny, uxorious, pretty (girl), handsome (boy), drunk of course :) There is also some achievements, if you act like a gentleman, you have sex or you can drink "afo". So I need these traditions to Hungary, and I need a Calotte (unfortunately it can be bought :( ).

Bar valuation: 7/10