View out our window at Hotel Noga
Out our window
St Nickolas, Grand Place, Brussels
Grand Place
Royal Palace on Grand Place
Cobblestones, Grand Place. Laurie's foot
Grand Place, note the guy on the horse pointing.
Escargot from a street vendor. Yum, yum!
1840's shopping mall in Brussels
Jannekin Pis
Mannekin Pis
Matthew & Mannekin Pis and some dude
A silo in Brussels
Creme Brule at Jacques, Brussels
St Michael & Satan
Laurie at the WE Energies, Brussels Branch
Matt at a monument to the Belgian Revolution 1830
Iron grill work
More grillwork
Belgians love cartoons
Matt outside the Palace
Inside Sts Michel & Gudule
A Magpie
Laurie with a statue of an armless guy with white feet
Motorcycle rally in Brussels. What's up with that?
Godfrey de Bouillon, who led the First Crusade in 1096
Victor Horta building that is the musical instrument museum
Matt on plaza outside the Palace of Justice
The Atomium from the Palace of Justice, six miles away
View from Palace of Justice
A cafe on the Grand Sablon
Note the giant bottle of mayonaise
The Ixelles neighborhood, south Brussels
Moules
Me eating a moule at Le Pre sale
Two big buckets of moules. the waitress went to the bar across the street to let us know our table was ready
Another view from our hotel window
Not sure what this sign on the sidewalk meant.
Inside the Museum of Central Africa
A Maxim Gun - "Whatever happens, we have got; the Maxim Gun, and they have not!"
Museum of Central Africa
Inside the Fine Arts Museum, Brussels
Matt and Mercator
The park at Le Petit Sablon. Matt in front of Mercator
Matt & Mercator
Matt eating frites in Amsterdam
Canal Scene, Amsterdam
Matt on a canal
People hoisting up wood on a pully outside the house
Anne Frank house
Dinner at De Reiger, Jordaan area, Amsterdam
De Reiger
De Reiger: Matt had swordfish...
...Laurie had veal
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum
Typical bell gable
A white-headed duck. They are noisy.
Laurie and a canal
A ramp to roll a bicycle down the stairs
Barney's coffeeshop and the Seven Bridges Hotel
Indonesian ricetable
At the Indonesian restaurant
The train station, Antwerp. Beer in vending machines!
Bruges - a lot of step-gables
Bruges street
Inside the Beguine, Bruges
Frites and mayo
Bello tower, market square, Bruges
Beer in Bruges
Bell Tower
Canal in Bruges
The Bell Tower, Bruges
Another view of the Bell Tower
Soup at Bistro in den Wittenkop
View out our B&B run by Koen & Annemie Dieltiens
The Bell Tower from our room - zoomed
Laurie looking out our window
"Bonjour!"
Down our street, Church of Our Lady
Crabs at the fish market, Bruges
The fish market
Basilica of The Holy Blood c. 1150
City Hall, Burg Square
Step Gables, Market Square
Market Square
Canal, Bruges
Same Canal, w/ Laurie
Michelangelo Statue, Church of our Lady
Charles the Bold & Mary of Burgundy
Matt singing like an Angel
Chansons!
A brune and a blonde
Church of Our Lady
Laurie in the courtyard of St John's Hospital
Note the brickwork on the gable
Laurie atop the Half Moon Brewery w/ the church of St Saviou in the background
Looking down from the brewery to a canal
The seal of Bruges. Had they ever seen a bear?
A brigde ove a canal, Bruges
Bruges a nuit
A restaurant scene. Never got the name, but the food was fab
Laurie had moules, Matt had a fish dish
Yum!
Vertigo
Carpets, too
The foire at the B&B, Bruges
The Belgians haven't quite come to grips with King Leopold's Ghost
Door to the street
Laurie liked these guys
Bike park at the Bruges train station
The Train station and Laurie
Our room at Hotel Noga, back in Brussels
Matt looking out our hotel
Up here!
The Atomium
The Atomium, built for the 1958 expo
More Atomium
The prison in Ixelles
Ixelles. Note the Art Nouveau lights
Art Nouveau light
More of Ixelles neighborhood
Victor Horta's house, the king of Art Nouveau.
Part of the 14c wall of Brussels
The wall and Matt's head
Grand Sablon
Laurie coming out of Pierre Marcolini, the hoity-toity chocolat shop
Love that chocolat!
On our stairs at Hotel Noga
At a local bar
The bar tenders and me.
Our last dinner: Bouillabaisse for me...
Squid for Laurie
mmmmmmmm
