Feelings of Little Paris Bastogne Brussels (Photos)

Brussels is a famous tourist city in Europe, known as" Little Paris" of reputation.The city has many monuments and museums, there are dense forests outside the city, glittering waves of small lakes and green, green grass of the lawn.Which give visitors the deepest impression in Brussels the" Big Three" : the first is less than honest citizens, atomic ball tower and the ancient battlefield of Waterloo.Landscape: the ancient battlefield of Waterloo, Brussels Atomium, uric children, Brussels Square, VictorHorta Museum.

beautiful Brussels

on to Brussels before, also chose a destination - Bastogne.

more than 7 am wake up before dawn, , checkout.8:45 out, raining, go to cancel Patton buried near a U.S. military cemetery, was a little disappointed, look at the future opportunities, and drove straight to the next destination: town of Bastogne BASTOGNE,

run 30 km on the territory into Belgium, and along high-speed, an hour to BASTOGNE.BASTOGNE, located in the eastern Ardennes region of Belgium, Winter 1944, end of the famous World War II Battle of the Bulge started in this region.

world with sleet, like" Band of Brothers" set the scene as 6, we 9:50 separated into BASTOGNE, Ohand of course 60 years ago, the deafening sound of gunfire.In the town square next to infomantion took the map.

town on the streets of U.S. tanks

two kilometers away and has a large World War II Memorial: Mardassonmemorial, drove to get there, empty, empty parking lot, memorial closed, crash and only stepped onthick snow, open the monument in the trembling feeling that time the soldiers feel the two warring sides, imagine the scene that year bloody tragic.

memorial outside the U.S. tanks

World War II Memorial

rush half hourto the road, to Brussels.Brussels, 12 more to the southern suburbs of Waterloo.In 1815, Napoleon led the French and British, Prussian forces fought a fierce battle at Waterloo, the French military defeat.Subsequently, the coalition forces quickly captured the Paris of Napoleon to abdicate his political career ended, was exiled to St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, from the Belgian town of Waterloo, famous in the world.

Now the ancient battlefield of Waterloo, in addition to several small memorial outside 180 years ago with almost no different, only differentin the ancient battlefield in the south where more of a pyramid of small soil Mountain: Iron Lion Peak.This hill is the ancient symbol of the battlefield, but also viewing platform, standing on top of the platform can be an overview of the global battlefield of Waterloo.

in the end is an ancient battlefield, where open terrain is flat, the whirring of the blowing wind, feel the current war situation, very occasional.Iron Lion Peak had to climb, did not think tickets are too expensive, that is not worth, click, crash and on the outside a few times, half an hour, flashed by.

Iron Lion Peak

feel to the hotel checkin time too early, they drove the first to ride in the center of Brussels, Brussels did not expect pretty big city, but also traffic congestion, and some roads and trams share a path, and no wonderknown as Little Paris.

and then want to go to the northwest of Brussels Atomium, unfortunately did not do their homework, only know about the road name, do not know the exact address, the wrong message to the GPS, the results open to the outside Brussels, a luxury area, knew two hours later, the decision was rushed to book hotels EtapHotelBrusselsAirport.14:00 multiple occupancy Etap, sort out, Grab the map, find specific addresses, out of the hotel, drove to the Atomium.

This is a crash and is very smooth arrived, parked in a nearby street, kind of school bus drivers to remind even the sake of safety do not stayanything in the car, I thought I was doing so only in southern Europe, can not think of Belgium as well.

Eiffel atomic ball

known as the Brussels" Eiffel" atomic ball, is well-known engineer Watekaien Belgium in 1958 for the Brussels World Expo design.After the exposition closed, the exhibits were removed, only the atomic sphere intact, it has become the modern symbol of Brussels.

This building is from 9 to 18 meters in diameter aluminum large ball, each ball represents an atom, the ballsconnected by the hollow steel pipe, steel pipe of each 26 meters long, 3 meters in diameter.Balls of steel balls and connected to form a cube pattern.The cube is equivalent to magnified 165 billion times the iron atom.8 ball in the corner cube 8, and the other balls in the cube center.

9 ball with a steel frame structure, a total weight of 2200 tons, the highest of a dome 102 m above the ground.Each ball surface is curved triangle with 5800 aluminum welding.

atom ball close range

ground World Expo's main venue

overlooking the old city Brussels

ride, and headed the old townand stopped at the main square of the underground garage, 2 euro per hour.Planned to go online to the recommended restaurant Seafood Street ChezLeon dinner, did not think walking the streets in seafood, a restaurant in front of folks could not help repeatedly introduced, and went in, ordered seafood rice and oysters, a checkout, 67 in Europe, thiefyou! a hard day's Road, Zhen Lei, less than 7 pm, return to underground parking, take car back to the hotel.

Seafood Street