Belgium - Brussels

We had a great weekend in Brussels a couple of weekends ago now. We took the Eurostar over, or should I say under the sea on Saturday morning very early along with my parents. Had a good look around the Grande Place and the Saturday markets before having a spot of lunch. Then we did a walking tour of the City on our own and thought that it was quite pretty really - some nice gardens and some very interesting eating places where they basically try to push you onto a table and chair to have a meal. On Sunday we rose early to make the most of our last day and headed to the Main Museum centre about half and hours walk from the hotel.

We first visited Autoworld (dad's choice of course) followed by the military museum, which believe it or not I actually found rather interesting as they had quite a collection of aircrafts. The best part though was the Natural History Museum which was quite amazing. They had a huge collection of insects and very large hairy and quite scary spiders (and if you know me you will know that I hate spiders). They had about 20 different varietys of hideous spiders which were actually living, which of course I had a few squeals and screams about.

Mike and I headed back that evening, not before buying some chocolates (which I must say were delicious) and chocolate coated icecream and waffles (a dream). Mum and Dad stayed on for another 2 nights and visited Antwerp and Waterloo battle grounds.