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Information in Brussels
Information in BrusselsChocolate
Belgian chocolate is famous, and remarkably linked to Tourism.
​I think that it in Brussels it is impossible to approach Manneken Pis without being compelled to enter one of the many shops that rival to make the most attractive presentation.
I didn’t make any kind of inquiry, and I don’t know the percentage of Belgians in the greedy clients, but… having such a delight by the door, who could resist?
​Aarschotstraat
Red Light area
Driving to Heysel park, we passed by Gare du Nord, and, by accident, found ourselves in the middle of “red light area”.
Suddenly, I remembered that I had been there in 1971, when I was a student and the travelling curiosities were… different.
Though not entering anywhere, the organized commercial structure of sex was astonishing to a youngster coming from the close and conservative dictatorship of Portugal.
​This time, the surprise was to see them working in daylight, and to change the initial idea – I had in mind that the display showed mainly consumed and degraded women, and this time we were shocked by the youth of some of them, and the dominating elegance.
A curious place, but the evident vigilance of their… friends, recommends discretion and caution.
Rue Neuve
Saint Hubert
