On thursday Mish and I headed into Brussels to meet Amy at the Eurostar terminal (fast train which travels from London to Brussels through the chunnel!!) and then have a look around Brussels for the day. The weather wasn't that great but we managed to see a fair bit anyway.
First things first, of course we got down to the all important business of waffle-eating
And chocolate-eating
And then just viewing the chocolate when we simply couldn't fit any more in.
Went to see the (free) carpark rooftop panorama of Brussels
We visited the EU Parliament and Commission buildings
Where all that legal stuff happens. We got little lilliput-sized books that tell us what our rights are as EU citizens. Pity we're not EU citizens.
We visited a war museum at the Parc Du Cinquantenaire which is a massive park built to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Belgium's independance (including Congo, which was a colony of Belgium!!)
They had a wing of WWI uniforms from many countries, including NZ! We were impressed.
Big guns = big shells
Then we went to visit the Atomium
And we even got to go inside and between the electrons (by elevator, stairs and lifts)!!
You can see mini europe is out the front there. Unfortunately we didn't get to visit it due to the bad weather. But we could see all the mini buildings from the Atomium
Then after all that walking, we were pretty exhausted, so had to stop for refreshment (ie vending machine beer) before embarking on our train journey back to Gent. Good day!!!
On thursday Mish and I headed into Brussels to meet Amy at the Eurostar terminal (fast train which travels from London to Brussels through the chunnel!!) and then have a look around Brussels for the day. The weather wasn't that great but we managed to see a fair bit anyway.
First things first, of course we got down to the all important business of waffle-eating
And chocolate-eating
And then just viewing the chocolate when we simply couldn't fit any more in.
Went to see the (free) carpark rooftop panorama of Brussels
We visited the EU Parliament and Commission buildings
Where all that legal stuff happens. We got little lilliput-sized books that tell us what our rights are as EU citizens. Pity we're not EU citizens.
We visited a war museum at the Parc Du Cinquantenaire which is a massive park built to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Belgium's independance (including Congo, which was a colony of Belgium!!)
They had a wing of WWI uniforms from many countries, including NZ! We were impressed.
Big guns = big shells
Then we went to visit the Atomium
And we even got to go inside and between the electrons (by elevator, stairs and lifts)!!
You can see mini europe is out the front there. Unfortunately we didn't get to visit it due to the bad weather. But we could see all the mini buildings from the Atomium
Then after all that walking, we were pretty exhausted, so had to stop for refreshment (ie vending machine beer) before embarking on our train journey back to Gent. Good day!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment