Brussels

took the Thallys (high-speed train) from Amsterdam to Brussels.  1st class . . .

a modest, continental brekky . . . nice . . . 

Found the hotel near the train station . . . it's ONLY positive attribute. then started the walkabout . . . 

Belgain Waffles as expected . . . 

the pissing cherub, a symbol of Brussels . . . 

I guess if it was Cerny, he'd be pissing on Europe . . . 8^) . . . 

the old square is gold trimmed and very ornate . . . 

unlike the rest of the town which is remarkable for the lack of ornamentation on the buildings . . . 

Tin Tin Museum

we stopped for lunch here . . . more about that later . . . 

mainly because it looked interesting, had no busker out front harranging passers-by, unlike the other restaurants, and it had a michelin 2013 button on the window. 

god how I love public art

there's these statues in the park,

an ancient greco-roman bust

put on a very ordinary, crudely stylized body

and identical toes on each-and-all 

then there was this among some others, very heavily weathered . . . .

we enjoyed this portion of our walk very much . . . 

even up the hill to the government buildings . . . 

the view is wide, if not so awesome . . . 

but the walk home, after dark, thru the sketchy neighborhoods back to the sketchy neighborhood by the hotel was edgy.