more nice train food

In June I found some surprisingly great food for sale in the Brussels Eurostar departure lounge.  Yesterday I was there again, but they were sold out of that particular baguette.  Pity.

However, I can just as heartily recommend the individual-size bacon quiche.

The chicken and bacon bagel, not so much.

nice train food -- really!

Past security in the Brussels Eurostar departure lounge there is a cafe-bar that sells brie, honey and walnut baguettes. Delicious!

(Well, it was actually a brie, honey, walnut and rocket baguette, but I removed the rocket before eating.)

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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.