An Evening in Brussels

Belgium was a good time although it rained most of the days we were there. Good thing we were simply in meetings much of the time. But on Tuesday evening we had an outing, divided into teams to find certain information and report back with our answers. Here is me with my team-mates: Simon (England), Kurt (Switzerland) and Johan (Holland). Some answers were more creative than others!

One of the statues that we found is called "Manneken-Pis" and is in fact what it sounds like. It is a statue of a little boy, commemorating his efforts to extinguish a fire that would have destroyed the Town Hall, by means of the most readily available source of fluid! Another story simply says that a father was looking for his lost child and he promised the Blessed Virgin Mary that he would make a statue of the child doing whatever he was doing when the father would find him. Guess what the kid was doing!!

There were other interesting sights in Brussels, of course. The smell of chocolate on one street in particular was absolutely heavenly. And inside one of those luscious shops was this fountain of chocolate!! Awesome, eh?

The centre square of the city was quite beautiful, in spite of the drizzle that evening. We finished off our time together enjoying the delight of Belgian waffles. So good!!