Christmas Day In Brussels

 This afternoon we drove into downtown Brussels and, after driving around the city, we found a parking place close to what looked like an open market.  It was great fun.  Besides the usual shops about 30 vendors had set up little "houses" to present a Christmas Faire with an assortment of local hand made and food items.  We checked out several Belgium chocolate places before finding the one we liked best so between Helia and me we have over $100 E of chocolate items (our only purchase).  We also stopped at a bar that specializes in many varieties of Belgium beer and we enjoyed some on draft.

Belgium is a combination of very old and very modern but, because of my love for old things, (like me) I enjoyed the architecture of the old buildings more.  As evening arrived the buildings were lit with colored lights.  The sky was beautiful all day with a combination of clouds and sun so the photo below has not been altered.