Showing posts with label Brussels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brussels. Show all posts

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Una giornata particolare

Yesterday I had to go to Brussels for some paperwork.

The ultra-fast trains operating between Paris and Brussels are wonderful [it's only a 72 minutes ride!] but the tickets are very rigid so since I finished my job much earlier than predicted, I had to wait for more than 4 hours to get on my train back to Paris.

Blessing in disguise: enough time for an impromptu visit to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts. ;)

Instead of giving you dozens of reasons why "you must" visit this place, I'll post here a bunch of photos I took there yesterday...

La chute des anges rebelles, Pieter Brueghel - 1562

Of course I saw the Brueghel-section and most of what you can find in their superb collection of ancient Art (I'll upload many pics later today), but you should not neglect their equally magnificent collection of the Modern Art. 

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Sunday in Brussels...

Sunday in Brussels was not ONLY about Elektra. In pictures...

 
Everybody visits La Grand-Place, but seriously - when you're there you  need to check out the Godiva chocolate shop: they make all those sweet devils in front of you. [ Let me see you resist that temptation! ]
OK, you buy a few boxes of their divine chocolate, then you must go to  Café Terrace (w/o leaving La Grand-Place!), to order and taste Strawberry-Banana Gaufre (they add chocolate and ice-cream anyway), plus a cappuccino and you'll cry about your diet on Monday :)