No plans for the day and it being Sunday, my intention was to spent the day camming. It was all stopped short when my son suggested we go to Brussels for the afternoon to look at the Horta Museum. Not being such a fan of my son's driving skills I was only persauded to go with him, because I always wanted to visit the museum or his houses. It was one of those plans I always wanted to do and mostly forgot about it.
We got a surprise at the Horta Museum, there was quite a queue in front of the museum and while we watched they let in only very small numbers of persons. We could be ending waiting for an hour or more. I was not really dressed to stand in the cold for that long, neither was David or Raf.
We decided to go for a walk, Brussels has beautiful old houses. I also remembered that now I can make photo's with my cellphone and I can download it to my computer. Normally I would have brought my camera along, but it was such a bleak and dreary day outside that I never thought of carrying the camera along all the time.
The first building we visited was Old England, a "grand bazar" built in 1899 in the art nouveau style designed by the architect Paul Saintenoy.
Spectacular building!
This is what real Brussels waffles look like!
And then there is Manneke Pis of course.
My son David next to a chocolat fountain. How many kilo's of chocolat will you have to melt for this fountain?
Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrikx
On the one corner was the house of Pierre Marcolini ....
red hearts for Valentine
On the next corner is the house of Godiva
who "Let love bloom" with strawberry hearts
around the corner was a shop of Neuhaus and on another corner was the shop of Coto D'or, all chocolats! I feel very sweet.
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