Brussels
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Brussels, the land of museums, history, Mini Europe, Mannekin Pis and more museums. It all sounded so exciting, only that it wasnt! Coming from Europe, Brussels can be quite a shock for some tourists, atleast the asians. The travel plans, tourist guides, city maps... all talk a differnt language. We were to go to Battlefield of Waterloo and then to the Mini Europe, but it took this plain journey of about 4 to 5 hours, a full day to complete! It was always just so easy to get lost anywhere. We were staying at Gare Du Midi aka Zuidstation, the main international connecting station of southern side. That side of town had a visible sadness, even on the faces of people. The traffic signs either werent working here or the cars were just running instead of pedesterian sign! In the end, I found it better to cut the plan to adjust a day in Amsterdam.
The battlefield of Waterloo was the only sunshine for us. A well preserved land, with all the landscape details, it still has the same trenches, hills and houses from that eventful day of 1815. But then it was the battle of Waterloo, which saw the decline of Napoleaon, a part due to rain washing away the strategic use of canons (he had strategised to use canons so that they bounce on striking the ground and in this way crush away a lot of soldeirs, but a torrential rain a night before not only ruined his plan, but also made already tired French to toil more), a part due to betrayal and a part due to Wellington's brilliance.
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