Chocolates
by sswagner
Anyone who likes chocolate should be prepared to buy some here and bring it home, for this is home to the world's finest chocolate. There are countless varieties served in the shops. Most people get a variety of samples to take with them. These chocolates are much fancier than what most people are accustomed to. Many of them are liquor chocolates, so be careful what you are getting if you are buying some for children. Chocolate shops are everywhere. You have the mainstays such as Godiva, however it is good to look at some of the other places as well.
Definitivamente no se debe...
by Chasse
Definitivamente no se debe estar en Bruselas sin disfrutar un detenido paseo por 'LA GRAN PLAZA' Es conveniente también visitar Mini- Europa y el Monumental Atomium Su arquitectura en los tradicionales edificios que abundan en el centro de la muy elegante y bella ciudad
Brussels - Manneken Pis -...
by cucaracha
Brussels - Manneken Pis - Perhaps Belgium national symbol. This fountain, a little boy cheerfully pissing into a pool below, dated from 1619 replaced the original stone version, nicknamed 'Little Julian', that stood here from the 14th century. Some say he was modeled on a boy who extinguished a fire...
EVERY GOOD EVENING SHOULD START...
by LysDor
...by "La Tournée Des Grands Ducs" where you stroll from Estaminet to Estaminet and taste BELGIAN BEERS before diner! To find these - belgian pubs - you should walk with your head a little bit up in order to see these Estaminets' signs.
Notice that these pubs are extremely well hidden and you can easily miss the entrance...
...see on the picture the sign "À LA BÉCASSE" and the incredibly narrow entrance?
In this case there is also a mark on the pavement so can find it easier by also looking down, lol!!
EC area... a place to visit?
by Norali
Hmmm... To be honest, I never thought of the EU area as a place to visit. It took me a VTmeeting, in Brussels, on Nov.10 to really visit it as a tourist would have done. Yet, in my previous job, I used to pass nearby those buildings to join my place from work... Parc 50aire in nearby was far more interesting for me.
Step down at Schuman metro station and the area is there. The most striking one is the Berlaymont building, on Rond-point Schuman. After some years of "cleaning" from asbestos material in the building, it is reported to reopen soon (Feb. 2004). Initially, the EU offices use to be there before the enlargement(s) and the need of adding EC buildings. 3000-4000 persons worked there. It was closed on 1991, after employees had asked, for some time, the European Commission to check about conditions there since the building contained asbestos. Their demand has been overlooked for a time but it finally closed in 1991...
Browse around to see the other buildings, including the main street Rue de la Loi- Wetstraat.
The most important building is, of course, this one on the pic: The European Parliament. It's easy to spot it from Parc Leopold. To arrive there, descent Rue Froissart, the perpendicular to Rue de la Loi, at Schumann square level. The very one near the flower stand. Further, you would find, at your right, a little street. Don't cross since from there, if you look far at your right, you would spot the shiny European Parliament building, all in iron and glass (pic in the next tip). This is "Les Caprices des Dieux". Surrounding it: the Leopold Park. Now, you just have to go through the park, climb the little upslope and you are in front of the building. I suspect that I share with many Brussels people the feeling towards changes in the city, to build those huge (and ugly, most of time) buildings that are designed for the EU institutions. Probably this feeling made me look at this area as a place that is there but not interesting at all.
In fact, Brussels people are proud to house those institutions but as years go by, they see their city changing, housing gone expensive due to massive "exodus" of EU commissioners in the area. People are sometimes, just tired of the works here and there. Can never fully enjoy it without the works...
All of that made me ignore this area. After all, who would be excited to watch other people's workplace?
Le "caprice des Dieux": European Parliament inheritated this nickname from its buiding being really expensive. The Gods, being the top execs of the EU... Also, its cheese-box shape, the one of "Caprice des Dieux" inspired the nickname.
It's always fun hearing European citizens I brought there asking to see where their money went... what was the expense worth? Here it is! Inside is even more impressive.
Metro M stations: Merode & Schumann
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try it at least once !!!!
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