Sophie the cat looks up
The Christmas Markets of Brussels, Belgium - 1st January 2007
We head over via the Channel Tunnel to visit Jules and Pieter in Brussels for New Year's Eve. Over the few days we are there, we take a couple of trips out to visit various markets, including a continuing Christmas Market near the Grand Place in the heart of Brussels' old town, visit several bars and have a bike ride with Natan around the nearby Royal Park.
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Pieter in the kitchen
The wine has good legs
Jules and Isobel chat
Nosher in the kitchen
Natan on a bike
A flower stall
Kai, Jules and Isobel on the streets
Kai looks at olives
Nosher gets the Hairy Eyeball
Pieter buys a red pepper
Kai: The Baby Nosh
A couple of fruit-and-veg sellers
A random selection of fluffy slippers
Uncovered tramlines
A Brussels side street
Kai in a push-chair
A statue waves
Just like Abbey Road
A funky door
Nosher in the garden
Numi the kitten peers out from behind the fishtank
A stripey kitten
Natan plays with Numi the cat
Cats cannot resist the power of string
Isobel roams the garden
An inflatable 'Ice Monster' waits
Crowds in a Brussels square
Christmas market
A rug seller
An old-style carousel
There's a scrum at a market shed
Waffles are put out to cool
Confusion at the saucisson stall
Waffle batter is poured into a waffle iron
A crowd at Vandonghen waffles
Customers wait for warm waffles
Jules scoffs a waffle with cream
A busking brass band
Jules and Isobel munch on waffles
Restaurant 'Les Crustaces'
A Brussels organ grinder
A dog on a bench
Kids on a great old-fashioned merry-go-round
Isobel and Jules walk around
Inside a cheese deli
Satirical poster
People wait to cross the road
Heaving crowds near to the Grand Place
A bit of classical busking
The Grand Place
Part of the L'Hôtel De Ville in the Grand Place
Tourists on the Grand Place
Nosher and the Grand Place in a disco mirror-ball
Jules and Isobel wait for Nosher
Graffiti
Brussels' famouse Manneken Pis statue
Near the Manneken Pis, Santas climb the walls
Isobel passes a flower shop
Illuminated trees
Nosher in a bar
A Brussels bar
Posters on the wall
Stacked café chairs
Warm light from a church window
A grand entrance arch
More illuminated trees
Isobel on a tram
Back in the kitchen
Pieter roams around the kitchen
Over at Dirk and Anne-Mie's for dinner
Dirk looks around
Dirk serves up some sort of pudding creation
Pieter plays a bit of piano
Dirk waves a bottle of brandy around
The view of Jules and Pieter's pad
Nosher helps the boys with Scalextric
Nosher and Natan play Scalextric
Natan at the top of a small hill in Royal Park
A pile of rusted metal
Pieter helps Natan learn wheelies
Natan pushes his bike through the woods
We find a derelict building in Royal Park
Derelict building and graffiti
A heavily graffiti'd garage door
There's not much of the roof left
Pieter peers through a hole in the wall
Inside the derelict building
Broken walls and a staircase to nowhere
A message for the local constabulary
Kai and Natan on the kitchen table
Crowds under a blue light
The Hôtel de Ville is all lit up
Searchlights shine from a tower
Pieter in a chocolate shop
A grand building lit up in pink
In another bar
Isobel gets the beers in
Isobel's ready for a sleep
Bar life
Isobel wakes up again
Jaws translates badly as 'Teeth of the Sea'
Nosher makes a purple thing of Play Doh
Natan shows off his swimming goggles
Kai peers out of the cardboard Wendy House
A Brussels post box
Back on Le Shuttle under the Channel
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Sophie the cat looks up
Sophie the cat looks up
Pieter in the kitchen
The wine has good legs
Jules and Isobel chat
Nosher in the kitchen
Natan on a bike
A flower stall
Kai, Jules and Isobel on the streets
Kai looks at olives
Nosher gets the Hairy Eyeball
Pieter buys a red pepper
Kai: The Baby Nosh
A couple of fruit-and-veg sellers
A random selection of fluffy slippers
Uncovered tramlines
A Brussels side street
Kai in a push-chair
A statue waves
Just like Abbey Road
A funky door
Nosher in the garden
Numi the kitten peers out from behind the fishtank
A stripey kitten
Natan plays with Numi the cat
Cats cannot resist the power of string
Isobel roams the garden
An inflatable 'Ice Monster' waits
Crowds in a Brussels square
Christmas market
A rug seller
An old-style carousel
There's a scrum at a market shed
Waffles are put out to cool
Confusion at the saucisson stall
Waffle batter is poured into a waffle iron
A crowd at Vandonghen waffles
Customers wait for warm waffles
Jules scoffs a waffle with cream
A busking brass band
Jules and Isobel munch on waffles
Restaurant 'Les Crustaces'
A Brussels organ grinder
A dog on a bench
Kids on a great old-fashioned merry-go-round
Isobel and Jules walk around
Inside a cheese deli
Satirical poster
People wait to cross the road
Heaving crowds near to the Grand Place
A bit of classical busking
The Grand Place
Part of the L'Hôtel De Ville in the Grand Place
Tourists on the Grand Place
Nosher and the Grand Place in a disco mirror-ball
Jules and Isobel wait for Nosher
Graffiti
Brussels' famouse Manneken Pis statue
Near the Manneken Pis, Santas climb the walls
Isobel passes a flower shop
Illuminated trees
Nosher in a bar
A Brussels bar
Posters on the wall
Stacked café chairs
Warm light from a church window
A grand entrance arch
More illuminated trees
Isobel on a tram
Back in the kitchen
Pieter roams around the kitchen
Over at Dirk and Anne-Mie's for dinner
Dirk looks around
Dirk serves up some sort of pudding creation
Pieter plays a bit of piano
Dirk waves a bottle of brandy around
The view of Jules and Pieter's pad
Nosher helps the boys with Scalextric
Nosher and Natan play Scalextric
Natan at the top of a small hill in Royal Park
A pile of rusted metal
Pieter helps Natan learn wheelies
Natan pushes his bike through the woods
We find a derelict building in Royal Park
Derelict building and graffiti
A heavily graffiti'd garage door
There's not much of the roof left
Pieter peers through a hole in the wall
Inside the derelict building
Broken walls and a staircase to nowhere
A message for the local constabulary
Kai and Natan on the kitchen table
Crowds under a blue light
The Hôtel de Ville is all lit up
Searchlights shine from a tower
Pieter in a chocolate shop
A grand building lit up in pink
In another bar
Isobel gets the beers in
Isobel's ready for a sleep
Bar life
Isobel wakes up again
Jaws translates badly as 'Teeth of the Sea'
Nosher makes a purple thing of Play Doh
Natan shows off his swimming goggles
Kai peers out of the cardboard Wendy House
A Brussels post box
Back on Le Shuttle under the Channel