Tuesday 20-10-15
We spent the last day of our holidays successfully navigating our way around Brussels using the Metro system. We caught the Metro to a place called Atomium. Here there was a very large structure that looked like an atom. It was originally built for the 1958 world expo. It was the Brussels exhibit and was meant to be pulled down soon after the expo but quickly became popular and so was left. By 2006 it had fell into disrepair so was totally renovated with new coverings on the spheres etc. A lift took us up to one of the higher spheres and here we had great views all over Brussels. We went down an escalator and here was information and displays about the World Expo of 1958 and it included models and photos of other countries buildings. Quite interesting! Another section included information about the initial building of the structure and then videos of the upgrade. After this adventure we visited a magnificent park located next to Atomium. It was Kings Park and had once been the site of the Expo in 1958. It was now full of beautiful deciduous trees that were gently loosing their Autumn leaves. There were terraces and hedges, lakes and trees pruned to different shapes too.
From here we took the Metro back to the main city centre and checked out a few things we had missed the day before including a female version of the little boy taking a pee fountain and also the Grand Palace. We had been told about a famous Belgium beer house called Delerium cafe and that it had the most number of beers on tap, anywhere in the world. We had a drink there before having a quick bite for tea and heading back to our B&B to repack ready for our trip home. We are taking the train from Brussels to Charles de Gaulle Airport, tomorrow in the morning and start our flight home in the afternoon.
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