Sorry it has taken so long to post so here is a whole bunch. This first set is a short trip we made along our way to Amsterdam. We first took the Chunnel under the English Channel and then into Brussels Belgium. It was amazing the Grand Place, or Grand Platz is a huge square with some of the most ornate buildings you can imagine. I'm sure the pictures don't capture that. But it was amazing. We wondered the small corridor streets and found the famous peeing boy statue. The legend goes a bomb was thrown into the town center to destroy those great buildings and a small boy saved the town by peeing on it. It is immortalized in that statue. Nice, huh? Maybe seagulls eating the crickets is a better story?
We had a lunch in a cool old pub in the square but the service and food sucked. Our tour guide, Vico - who is GREAT - even got in a fight with them over it. He watches out for us a lot. He even sets up the Internet every so often so the kids can call hom for free. So they don't mind public calls and they do it. Very nice.
Anyway the highlight was of course when I ran out of our lunch place - where they served Tuna to the vegetarians, by the way...and ran down the street to buy myself a waffle! OH IT WAS SO GOOD! You'll see in the pictures which one I got. Anyway sorry there are so many building shots - but it was just so cool! Enjoy
BTW - the Antwerpen sign - I got one when we were here 10 years ago because of the Tom Shane commercials....I thought I'd try again.
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