Tag Archives: Brussels
Overrated?
I am away until the end of May. Until I get back I am re-posting some favourites so you don’t miss me too much. A pilgrimage to see the Manneken Pis is a requirement for anyone visiting Brussels. The small statue is only 61 cm tall (two feet if you use Imperial measurements) and probably […]
Broken Relationships, Revisited
I am away until the end of May. Until I get back I am re-posting some favourites so you don’t miss me too much. The broken camera made absolutely no sense to me; or to Vivian for that matter. Why would a non-functioning digital camera be the first thing we would see at the entrance […]
More of Mini-Europe
In recent days I have found that I am in the mood to post pictures here, a break from my sometimes lengthy posts. I so have a few of those I want to get to, but pictures are what you are going to get again today. Consider each one worth the proverbial thousand words. We […]
Images of Brussels
I thought for today I’d let the photos do the talking, just some random shots I took while walking around Brussels.
Delirium
I am not a big fan of bars. I don’t like crowds or noise. Nor do I think alcohol is a required in order to have a good time. If anything, the reverse is true; booze makes people behave in strange ways that they inevitably regret. Or should regret. Also, if I am out with […]
Tinkling The Ivories
I learned to play piano as a child, though using the word “learned” might be stretching things. I wasn’t willing to practice – probably because I didn’t like the music I was being asked to learn. As an adult I understand the importance of the musical tradition, but back then I might have been a […]
On Horseback
Going through some of the photos from this year’s European vacation I noticed that there were pictures of horses almost everywhere we went. Not real horses though. Except for the ones in Caen Castle, these horses were intended as accents to the statues of the riders. So thinking that a picture is worth a thousand […]
Impresssions of the European Parliament
I’m a political junkie, I’ll admit it. Wherever I am I follow the local political news. In Maine in August I bought a newspaper each day because this is an election year in the US (just not a presidential election year, so there isn’t as much frenzy). I wanted to see what the candidates for […]
How Do You Spell Overrated? Manneken Pis!
A pilgrimage to see the Manneken Pis is a requirement for anyone visiting Brussels. The small statue is only 61 cm tall (two feet if you use Imperial measurements) and probably the most photographed object in all of Belgium. Tourists flock to see it. In two trips to Brussels I have yet to figure out […]
All This For A Song
It’s a monument to creativity, seven floors in downtown Brussels devoted to musical instruments. But there was no cigar box banjo. Admission is free at the Musical Instruments Museum on Wednesdays, so we planned our visit for then. That turned out to be a good decision: I hate wasting money and Vivian wasn’t enthralled as […]
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