Brussels - Day Two

Brussels has many comics murals throughout the city, which provide a nice route for exploring the city. We started by catching the underground out to Stockel station, which has a 135m Tintin mural done by Herge in 1988, shortly before his death.

From there we followed the trail through the markets (Marché aux Puces - Vlooienmarkt) in Place du Jeu de Balle-Vossenplein (where Tintin finds the model boat in "Secret of the Unicorn")...

And back to the Manneken Pis, where we had a great lunch followed by some waffles (wafel/gauffre), available in a square Brussels version dusted with powdered sugar (even when you ask them not to).

Abandoned the mural trail when we found ourselves in the seedy west side, and nipped back over to the Most des Arts area, where we saw an odd progression at the Palais des Congres. At first I thought it might be a bunch fo right-wingers, but I think it had more to do with the 'art month' that Brussels was celebrating.

On the train to the airport we caught a glimpse of the famous Atomium, a remnant from the 1958 World Exposition.

Unfortunately our flight departed late, which then meant being stuck on the runway at Heathrow for nearly an hour. Horrible!