But first, dinner at a canal-side pub in Bruges.
They had some ideas .......
............. but Cathy was obdurate. First, the long spoon, ......
...... then the feast ........
......... and again, the crashing disappointment when it's all gone.
Cathy firmly decided to leave Bruges with its ephemeral cremes brulee and head for pastures new.
Firstly, she brought some good news here ......
.... and then into Brussels-Midi.
Brussels is in Belgium although these Poles might suggest otherwise.
The list of states of the EU, outside the parliament building.
The very top of the European Parliament.
We were going to take a tour of the parliament, but a hop-on hop-off bus appeared, and as we only had 5 hours in Brussels, we took that instead.
The spectacular planetarium in Brussels.
After sundry sights of Brussels, we decided to really get into the culture, so we had a pad thai for lunch.
We then walked back to the station (about 1.5 km) ......
....... on a lovely sunny afternoon.
This is the entrance to the Brussels metro (or one of them - entrances, that is)
After that, we boarded Eurostar, through the Chunnel and back to Putney.
ReplyDeleteThere endeth your tour of the low countries.
Is Cathy doing her master's thesis on Cremes Brûlée of the World? It would be a pity to waste all of that research.