Brussels Day 2

Today was my last full day in Brussels. I decided, since I had seen all that was important to see to visit some places that weren’t in the guide book. The first place I went was the Basilique du Sacre Coeur. I had seen it from the Palais du Justice and it was all by itself on the other side of town. I walked there first thing in the morning, it was much farther than it looked. When I finally found out what it was, I was unlucky enough to discover that it was closed to visitors during service. After this I walked back to the center of town to check a few things out. I walked through the botanical gardens, which were rather plain as the weather still hasn’t warmed up here enough. I walked around town some more and was off in search of some lunch when I saw an arch in the distance, now I don’t know how this thing was not in my guide book. It was magnificent. I am still not exactly sure what it was but it was attached to the museum of royal arts (closed on Sunday) which was a nice structure as well. There was a park around the arch and I laid there for awhile and took a rest since I had been walking around for almost 4 hours straight. After laying there for awhile I headed to a grocery because I was too tired to go out to dinner. I bought a sandwich, some petit ecolier(those biscuit cookies with the chocolate kid on top), some thai sweet chili lays and a big bottle of Evian. I discovered the ease of the metro and took that back to my hotel. I laid there and ate my dinner in my room and now I have to go to bed because I have to get up at 5:30 to catch my train to Metz!