A few days in Brussels – my favourite things to do
With tickets to U2’s last tour concert in Europe in our hot little hands we headed to Brussels for a four day summer break. We had a fantastic time and I have picked out some of my favourite things to share with you: Getting to Brussels This will depend on where you are coming from but as we were coming from Lac du Bourget in France we decided to take the train. About six hours from arriving at the station in Aix les Bains to getting to our guesthouse, with a one hour change-over in Paris meant that the afternoon of travel was very easy going – work was done, magazines were read, coffee sipped. We booked through SNCF and travelled on the TGV and Thalys lines – both of which were great, although the latter had a really good meal service included as well. Getting around Brussels Walking, walking, walking – our feet were really all we needed. We took all of five metro rides the whole four days we were there. Things to …