Belgium - Brussels

The capital city of Belgium. We managed to get to the center by car, and got rid of it as soon as we could. Fortunately, Brussels has a lot of public subterranean parking places.

We first arrived at the Grand Place of course, chef d'oeuvre of Baroque architecture.

We then visited the Galeries St Hubert, also known as Galeries Royales. Sorry for the French, but although Brussels is located in the Flemish part of the country, it is in its majority French-speaking.

After a short visit to the Manneken-Pis, a little statue made as a tribute to a small boy who supposedly saved the city peeing on the fire that threatened it, dressed as if just graduated to celebrate the end of school year, we wandered around the city trying to find the famous comic walls. And we found three of them!


I also want to recommend to the travellers going to Brussels soon, a restaurant located at the end of the Galeries St Hubert, and surprisingly quite cheap. The specialities du chef are salty and sweet pies, and incredibly good! I particularly recommend the Tarte Forestière and the one with carrots, cumin and coriander.