Night in Brussels
It has happen in this last year that I in the evenings have taken my car for a drive around in the inner city. I did this a lot just after I arrived, for me it was a good way to learn the city, so I could enjoy it by being free of thinking about where I were. Today I know my way around but I actually don't know the road names.
This are the pictures from one of my drives in late evening. Brussels is in that sence rather funny - it is a busy city but at some point it is like everything stoppes. No shops - this was nothing that I was used to.
I tried to take some pictures of the Daxia house when it was lighting up in beautiful colours but I didn't manage that well I am sorry to say.
I had the pleasure to visit a genuine Belgian restaurant and one of those I have to return to. This was the real heavy Belgian cooking with a fair amount of beer in every dish. In all fairness I have to say that it was a Belgian college who invited me because it would have been one of these places I just would have passed - And that would have been a shame. The food was excellent and plenty and the service was in top as well. I must admit that it was like stepping in to history.
The waiters were very helpful in explaining the dishes and that helped. I must also admit that I don't think that they had anything but damn good and solid food - this is the kind of food you wished your mom was cooking if you are into traditional food - the country style.
Go for it - it was a secret I didn't know
You can be lucky to go in on a day when they are having a concert, you never know. There are nice art on the walls and sometime there is a debate forum going on - and everybody are just sweet and smiling. This is a very relaxed place and I hope not that too many are reading this and come by to fill this place up because it would be a pity:-)
See U Soon
By the way:
Le Bateau-Lavoir was a squalid block of buildings in Montmartre, Paris situated at 13 Rue Ravignan (Place Emile Goudeau). The place is famous because at the turn of the 20th century a group of outstanding artists lived and rented artistic studios there. First artists started to settle at the Bateau-Lavoir in the 1890s but after 1914 they started to move elsewhere (mainly Montparnasse).
The name of the place means the laundry-boat because it resembled boats of laundry women. Indisputably the most famous resident of the place was Pablo Picasso (1904-1909) where he lived with his dog Frika.
