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Atomium & Mini-Europe

Monday morning was much cooler thank goodness. We took the subway out to Hazel to the Mini-Europe theme park. Which is as it sounds, a collection of Europe sights in minature. Next stop the amazing Atomium. It was built for the world fair in 1957. A really fast lift...

City Tour of Brussels

We awoke to another scorching day and decided to take a city tour to see the sights. We saw many beautiful buildings, including some modern architecture, such as the European Economic Centre and older buildings such as the Courts. The first photo shows the modern...

Brussels – Take Two

Saturday morning we returned to Heathrow and were told the flight was overbooked and we might not get seats. We were lucky and even upgraded to business class. We boarded then were delayed for an hour due to passengers checking in luggage then not boarding. All bags...

Brussels – false start

A surprise trip for my birthday couldn’t have started off worse. We arrived at Heathrow airport on Friday night to spend two hours waiting to be checked in due to an accident, which meant that tankers couldn’t get to the planes to refuel. In the end the...