Previously I had stopped at day 6th of my "adventures" in Europe, and before we went to Paris, we were in Belgium (Belgian chocolates!), in Brussels (the capital of Belgium) and Brugge. Belgium does not have a language of their own, therefore, their population mainly speaks French, Dutch and German.
Early in the morning, our tour leader had arranged a local tour guide to take us around the city, and the first stop was to visit Manneken Pis. The boy who had saved the entire village by putting out the fire with his urine! The day before the child statue was stark naked, and today, he was dressed, usually according to festival seasons, so basically he has hundreds of other types of clothes.
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| Manneken Pis the child hero. |
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After visiting the site of Manneken Pis, we went to the Grand Place - the central square of Brussels.
This is the Guildhalls on the Grand Place. |
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| the Brussels Town Hall. |
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| The Maison du Roi (King's House). |
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| If you touch the statue's right hand, you will have 1 year of happiness it seems. You would have babies touching the angel. |
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| the streets of Brussel. |
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| The Delirirum Pub - where they have over 2000 types of beers and they have the best beers in the whole world. |
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| After the Grand Place, we took the bus and came to the Atomium - a monument built for the Expo '58, at the 1958 Brussel World's Fair. |
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| 9 steel spheres are connected to each other so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal. |
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| This structure just seems awesome to me! |
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| But we didn't get to go up to the spheres there though, need tickets! |
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| After leaving the Atomium, we stopped at Brugge, in the Flemish region of Belgium to have our lunch. |
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| This is the Provinciaal Hof. in the Markt. |
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| The Belfry in the Markt as well. |
After having our lunch in a Chinese restaurant in the Markt, Brugge, we headed off to Paris, where the journey was around 4 - 6 hours long! We were in the bus for so long I was so bored, and upon reaching Paris, it was jam packed because it was around 6 something in the evening.
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| This interesting clock statue caught my eye. |
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| The streets of Paris. |
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| We were free to roam around for about 30 minutes after we had our dinner, but almost all the shops were closed anyway. |
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| Chocolate Eiffel Tower. |
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Albert Einstein - Love is the answer.
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Next day:
Paris Day 6
1 comment:
so nice.. i wish to go there one day :)
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