What should we go see in Brussels?

[nannyo]

We're off to play in Brussels this weekend, what should we go and see? What should we do?

I think we're planning gentle mooching, eating, drinking, more eating, and more gentle mooching. Is there anything unmissable?

We're doing Eurostar, which I'm looking forward to. Hooray for adventures.
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Comments

[pink_weasel]

The Chocolate Museum! And the pissing thing!

The eurostar is nice.

[karohemd]

There's the Atomium, which is quite impressive and obviously geeky.
As pink_weasel mentions, Manneken Pis should probably be on your schedule, before someone takes it down because it's either not PC or provokes pedophilia...

[davegodfrey]

There's the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences which has 30 mounted Iguanondon skeletons.

[nmg]

Also, try and find the Jeanneke Pis.

Otherwise, chocolate obv, but also moules et frites (om nom nom).

The Belgian Comic Strip Museum/Centre Belge de la Bande Dessine is good, albeit mostly francophone: http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-museums-comicstrip.htm

[nannyo]

I can do francophone, will see what the Mup thinks about it! Moules frites is on my list. I LOVE them. YOM YOM YOM YOM.
N.

[nmg]

My schoolboy french is tres mauvais, and I didn't have a childhood reading BDs, so I undoubtedly missed a lot of the references, but there was still a lot of cool stuff there.

When I went, there was a temporary exhibition about an artist who seemed to be the Belgian equivalent of Frank Hampson of Dan Dare fame. Dead cool, especially the notes that he'd taken while on a research trip in Britain (noting down that his dinner had been "welsh rabbit" washed down with "biere anglaise ('light ale')")

[karohemd]

That reminded me so I checked but the Hergé museum (Tintin) isn't open yet. :o(