Brussels (The Holiday - IV)
Grand Place, Brussells
I’ve been slack, it been three weeks since we hit Brussels (or should I say got hit), and I haven’t written anything, so now is as good a time as any, to speak my thoughts on this wonderful city. Brussels is a city that keeps on giving, and giving and giving, which in this case, is in no way a good thing. The building above, and the other buildings within Grand Place in the center of the city are just about the nicest things we saw, and I mean that.
I’ve only been to such a tiny amount of places around Europe, so I can’t really comment (as I’m sure there’s far worse), but for a city that’s the capital of the European Union, and the capital of Belgium, it really doesn’t have a lot going for it. It’s got less going on than Perth, Australia (almost 1,000,000 less people), its transport system is useless (granted, I’ve been blessed with Paris and London’s system) and its rundown, dirty and covered in Graffiti. And this is after a city-wide beautification process in 2000 after being awarded the prize for Cultural Capital of Europe. I’d love to have a whole bunch of photos with fancy buildings and beautiful sights, but to be honest, I really didn’t see any:
I know, every city looks like this right?? But the whole thing? Surely not. I can just tell now I’m going to love Eastern Europe, and the South East of the United States.
Our Hotel
Out of everything that happened in Brussels, the hotel was definitely the high point, apart from the fact it was an hour and a half out of the city by train, which is my own fault for not checking properly where it was located when I booked it. The Chateau Du Lac in Genval was fantastic:
