House hunting in Brussels

We had a nice lead on an apartment near South Brussels train station, so we hopped on a train from Leuven to Brussels. Lydia was tickled when the ticket lady gave her a chocolate bar for Valentine's day, covered in pink wrapping "For You : For your love". It was such a beautiful day that we got off the train at central station and walked around the Grand Place. I wanted a chance to take photos of the beautiful Hotel de ville and Museum de la ville de Bruxelles, standing either side of one of the most beautiful town squares in Europe. We also saw Manneken Pis dressed up for carnival, then we took the train to south station. The apartment we were there to look at was rather cramped and in an old crumbly building, but up on the 11th floor the view was magnificant, looking out north onto the high town and south onto greater Brussels. It also had a view over beautiful Hotel des Monnaies, the type of view that makes up for a lot...