Brussels

We only had a few hours to fill in here - Brussels was really only a stop between Bruges and Giverny. Our hotel was pretty basic, but it was walking distance from the train station and right in the middle of the tourist centre of things. We managed a pretty good look around in the time available and there certainly was a lot to see. It was somewhat amusing that the first tourist attraction pointed out on the map for us by a lovely young girl at the tourist office - which had the somewhat doubtful name of Manikin Piss (even written down for us by the same lovely young girl) turned out to be just that, a quit small and decidedly tacky statue of a man passing into a fountain. And it definitely had the biggest crowd of tourists on the day.
Tomorrow we head off to visit Monet's Garden at Giverny near Paris.Leggi altro