A visit to Belgium
Brussels Town Hall Mr Robot and I usually go on holiday to countries warmer than the UK, but a couple of years ago we went to Maastricht for his 50th, and it made us want to see more of the low countries in general – the Netherlands and Belgium in particular. Visit Wallonia started popping up in my Instagram feed and the region looked so lovely we decided to visit it. You'd think, being geographically relatively close, the area would be easy to get to, but it's not that simple. My local airport is Bristol, and Paris or Amsterdam would be the nearest destinations to anywhere in Belgium. Neither is really close, and both are very big airports, and I know from our trip to Maastricht that getting back to Amsterdam to catch a flight can be fraught. So we chose Eurostar. We'd never got the train to Europe before, and coming from the West Country adds an extra wrinkle as it means relying on the British rail network (ha! rely ...) to get us into London when it's supposed to, s...
