shooting chocolate

I'm just back from a couple of days in Brussels, where I was at a meeting about Unconventional Computation. Brussels is a mixture of new and old buildings, as the "view" out of my hotel window shows:

New buildings at the back, packed right up against older ones in the middle.  And those older ones are indeed quite old; zooming in on the wall to the right shows some crumbling brickwork:

But what Belgium is famous for, of course, is chocolate.  I decided that photographs would be better for me than any closer interaction, and the displays themselves are works of art:

I did succumb to a hot chocolate drink, however.  Mmmm.