1. Excellent Food & Vino. Excellent.
There's just such a great array of restaurants and international cuisine. I'm actually eating three meals a day, drinking way too much vino, and even without a sweet tooth, ordering, desert.
2. Insane art, fabulous dance school (P.A.R.T.S).
Comics are considered an art form here. There is even a museum devoted to this genre. Give it up for Tin Tin and the Smurfs!
3. The local humour (with all due respect), hints at a rebellious streak.
Behold, the tiny statue of a boy, pissing behind me. Manneken-pis has been drawing visitors since the 15th century and he even has a wardrobe of clothes for different occasions!
4. The variety of chocolate and beer blows the mind.
(Galler Chocolate, Rue au Beurre 44)
5. UNESCO-listed Grand Place/Grote Markt surely deserves, respectful re-imagining.
I wonder how one preserves the spirit of 17th century commerce without spiralling down the Tacky Tourist Trap?
Poor Pony!
Please can there be a more sensitive curation of stores/tenants both at the square and at the Galleries St Hubert? The latter is supposedly, "the oldest mall" in the Western world...
6. Brussels reminds me of Butoh, the Japanese dance of darkness, of which I'm a huge fan.
Translation- Brussels' beauty is expressed in its age and decline.
Brussels is like an old woman who has been rudely neglected. As the center of the EU, with a dynamic diversity of people, I wonder if anything can be done to protect the city from urban decay and mere disrespect? Is there really a need for instance, to scrawl anger on every empty surface, especially when the surface belongs to something from a different century?
7. Found a Belgium Crumbly.
Odette En Ville, Rue du Chatelain, 25
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