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 which contains the MIM collection of...
Well, Dr. Fumblefinger 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 it's stall as I strolled around the Flea Market in Brussels. I think...
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 on a sunny...
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 for...
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"?? Perplexed...
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. The next...
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 Travel Gumbo!
Glimpsed by chance from a Brussels window, buildings of the European Union Parliament in Belgium shine in the reflected sunlight of an early evening.
The best way to see Ghent, Belgium is on foot and so there I was; following Mark, a local tour guide hired by AmaWaterways to guide a group of cruise passengers through the streets of this beautiful medieval city. ...
You would need a week to properly see Brussels, but if you only have a few hours, make good use of your time and take an organized tour. I was fortunate to be on an AmaWaterways river cruise shore excursion when I visited the...
Thirty years ago it was signed, and 20 years ago today it went into effect: The European agreement that wiped out land borders for travelers throughout most of Europe, and also had the side effect of making a tiny town in Luxembourg into a world...
There are two kinds of airlines: the dead serious, and those prone to a little fun. The latter sometimes takes the form of eccentric special paint jobs (American's flying some planes in TWA livery to honor the past; Eva Air runs Hello Kitty-themed...
A couple of weeks ago, we published a News Link about a couple who followed their GPS off the road and into the water...now we've got one about a tour bus driver who set the wrong town on the device. The driver of the ski-tour bus, organized...