We went to Brussels for the weekend recently, but I only got as far as Saturday lunchtime in part 1. The Atomium was the main pavilion of the Brussels World Fair of 1958 up on the Heysel plateau, a space-age icon that outlasted everything else. I’d been to it before, on one or other of my… Continue reading A Christmas trip to Brussels, part deux

Ruben was in a restaurant one night in October when he got a notification on his phone of a Couchsurfing request - two adults, two kids - for the beginning of December. “A family with two young boys: that could be really cool or it could be a real disaster”, he thought. “I'll take my… Continue reading In Brussels for the Christmas markets