Thanks for looking, Chris.
The street with the restaurants is a classic tourist trap, so I am now
surprised that you found it expensive. Few locals would ever eat in
those restaurants. One of the standard tricks they use is a classic
bait-and-switch method: on the menu board outside there is a great-
sounding special menu at a reasonable price, so you go in, sit down,
get your drinks, but when it is time to order the food, it invariably
turns out that the dish on special is no longer available because they
ran out of some critical ingredient. But of course you can simply
order a la carte ;-)
On the Grand' Place itself there is a good restaurant, ´t Kelderke,
which servers all the traditional Belgian dishes like stoemp,
waterzooi etc., along with a great beer selection.
Of course, with the pound only worth about € 1.10 now, travelling to
the Continent has become more expensive for UK folk--the same
phenomenon that has made it a lot cheaper for me to support my son at
university in England and that also has made it possible for me to buy
my M8 in Scotland at a saving of at least € 1000 compared to buying it
here.
Cheers,
Nathan
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On Feb 15, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Thanks, Nathan. As well as enjoying many of those images, they
> provided a balanced view of the city of Brussels. I have always found
> the place to be rather pretentious and over-priced. The cost of
> visiting Belgium was bad last Summer, but it's even worse now for the
> Brits with the ghastly exchange rate. I visited Brussels during the
> BFr days, pre-Euro, and felt that I was ripped off everywhere I went
> (especially in the alleyway you showed in one of your photos); I bet
> that it's beyond belief now.
>
> And the sooner we get rid of the second European Parliament buildings
> the better off we'll all be ...
>
> Chris
>
> On 15 Feb 2009, at 15:44, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
>> As many of you know, I spent last weekend in Brussels, largely
>> walking
>> around familiar places, many of which are a bit off the beaten path,
>> at least from a tourist's point of view. I lived in Brussels between
>> 1995 and 2000 and so have many favourite spots in the city. This
>> collection takes you to some of those spots:
>>
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu/brussels0209/
>>
>> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
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