Out and about in Brussels

I discovered a new park in Brussels this week. I took a walk after a dentist's appointment and ended up here in Square Maria Louza feeling contemplative in pain.

I think it must be the biggest body of (standing) water in Brussels - and certainly an impressive fountain: the spray drift shifts with the wind. This view is taken looking back up Avenue Palmerston - one of the streets with the highest concentrations of Art Nouveau buildings in Brussels. If you move 100 yards around the lake the view changes completely with the fountain backdroppped by the buildings of the Commission

Less than two hundred metres behind one's back from where these photos are taken one enters the borough of Sint Joost ten Nord: the smallest borough (gemente) in Brussels and the poorest and most ethnically diverse in Belgium (people from 150 different nationalities and an average per capita income of 15K Euro - which must put it on par with the Baltic States). Thats one of the beauties of Brussels - it has diversity - but is also compact.

And, yes, I am wondering why there is a street in Brussels named after after a C19th English Prime Minister and whether in the future there will be a 'Clegglaan'.

Oh and a post script: no-one has posted a comment on my blog for almost six months.. I'm feeling lonely and unnapreciated! I know I still have readers - but either I am not saying anything very intersting/thought provoking anymore, or else everyone is too busy on facebook, or else the security curtain I placed around the blog (to prevent spambots sending me adverts about viagra, avialable Ukrainian women and million dollar caches hidden in Sudanese and Sierra Leonian bank accounts - if I will just send them my bank account details) is too tight. Please will the next reader just post a comment - even if just to say 'hi' and test the last possiblity. Thanks