We headed straight out to explore the town and started by spontaneously alighting the metro at a station called Schuman, which happens to be where the Head Office of the European Commission is based. This is the central hub where all the negotiations took place when I worked there!

We ate brunch at a specialty cafe called La Grand Central then walked through Parc Leopold, then up to Parc Cinquantenaire, train back to Parc de Brussels, where we saw a cute display of large sculptures of a Belgian cartoon character called Le Chat. After that, we stopped for the obligatory Belgian waffle and a coffee, then the weather turned rather wet so we spent the next few hours inside the Musee des Instruments de Musique which was very interesting indeed.

We took our sore feet back to our friends place where we re-packed, rested a little, and had home-made pizza for dinner (she is Italian!)