Brussels: Stop dancing, or pay a tax!
Brussels stirs up a controversy with a tax on dancing in nightclubs, and with how to enforce it.
Brussels stirs up a controversy with a tax on dancing in nightclubs, and with how to enforce it.
Gumbo was hanging out on the banks of the Leie river in Ghent Belgium. See why it's one of the most popular places in the city.
I'm very conflicted about my feelings for Belgium and I've been trying to find the wonderful, friendly and unique country I once knew. Let me explain a little.
The new seats in standard class Big changes are coming for the Eurostar trains that link Paris, Brussels, Lille and other French cities to London with 17 new trains that will start service by the end of the year.
In front of the pretty central-Brussels church of Notre Dame du Sablon is the shaded and beautifully laid-out garden of 'Petit Sablon'. The centrepiece of the garden is a gently sprinkling fountain in the centre of which is a large statue.
The pretty church of Notre Dame du Sablon was built between the 15th and 16th centuries on a plot of land between two squares in central Brussels - named 'Grande' and 'Petite' Sablons. It is particulaly noted for its beautiful stained glass windows.
'Old England' is a 1899 former department store in Brussels, Belgium, that is an art nouveau showpiece with a superlative black facade all decorated with wrought iron and beautifully arched period windows.
Well, DrFumblefinger did tell me to show you photos that 'interest' me... I'm not sure if that extended to "worried me" too... This tiny little clown doll seemed to watch me from its stall as I strolled around the Flea Market in Brussels.
I just like the colour and the intrigue of the contents of this store front in Brussels complete with the guy speaking on his mobile phone. Standing on the edge of the Flea Market in Brussels, this is very much a 'people watching' location.
Well, I just liked this store window in Brussels offering furnishing hardware in beautifully arranged wooden boxes with some very antique-looking furnishing hardware which, if it is really of the apparent period, would be quite a prize find.
On Sunday 18th June 1815 the 74,000 troops of the French Emperor Napoleon hurled themselves at 67,000 European allied troops of the Seventh Coalition from Holland, Belgium, Germany and Britain under the command of the English Duke of Wellington.
And then there was this store front in Brussels, Belgium... Is that saying "I have some chairs for sale"??
Early in the afternoon of June 19th 2015 in the little village of Waterloo, south of Brussels in Belgium, the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte walked in the gardens of his battle headquarters in the farmhouse of Le Caillou with his wife Josephine.
No, I'm not too sure why either.... But when you see a store front like this, then it just has to be a Pic of the Day for our delightful readers of TravelGumbo!
Glimpsed by chance from a Brussels window, buildings of the European Union Parliament in Belgium shine in the reflected sunlight of an early evening.