We started our last part of Brussels by asking a local for directions to a place for breakfast. Asking for directions is sport in most cities...but we were gonna find it! Well a few lefts or rights or some other option later we found this wonderful old church in the quieter part of town. We did in fact find our breakfast place, and some baked goods and granola yogurt got us rolling...
On the Belgian trams to the Atomium! This structure was built for the 1958 World's Fair. If you suck at science like I do, you probably didn't recognize that it in fact is a molecule of Iron.. If I had said lead or gold you wouldn't have known the difference...or cared...
Here Saviya, John and I go up the escalators inside the Atomium
Than the air conditioner and and escalators run out..and the stairs begin...did you notice its a tube of metal we are in, in July!
After a few hundred stairs and platforms, we get to the top level. Look at this view!...I love how it fits in perfectly with its horizon...the lines and curves here just all go together so well...The art on display inside one of these balls showed what people in the 50's thought the future would look like...Well the future has more air conditioning and escalators than I think the thought we would have...but less flying cars.
The grounds here are shared by the 1960 Olympic grounds. And a football stadium...the soccer type of football...
This is not a great photo, but that's all of Europe....really, like from space, but weirdly from some monster atom of metal...really its an amusement park called Mini Europe with some visually shrunken element from a country like the Eiffel, or the Atomium..wait we are still it it..We didn't take the time to see mini Europe, so I guess we have to go to the real thing...
So that was Brussels...we hopped on a train home to Amsterdam, and put John on a plane home for Seattle. Good visit, thanks for coming! I have one more post that will include some videos from Brussels...stay tuned.
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