Natural History and the EU Parliament

Up earlier than is reasonable on a holiday this morning, so we could grab breakfast before our bus to Brussels. The guide on the bus was knowledgeable but not hugely engaging. We briefly stopped at the Atomium outside of the main city. Having done the excursion before, we knew the walk in would include a mini-guide, so we asked if we could leave and grab a metro.

At the Natural History Museum, we may have been the only adults there without children! But we came to see dinosaurs. That seemed like a reasonable and achievable goal, but clearly the museum designer had different ideas. The map is marked 1 to 18, you enter at 6, each number could be on any floor, and apparently numbers don't mark galleries but crossings...what?! The exhibits were great but the map was mental. We took in lots of dinosaurs, including iguanadons that were stood upright and had been in the gallery since 1901, with an explanation that newer science had them on all fours.

Just outside the museum was the EU Parliament, and we wandered through the campus before planning our return to town.Read more