I have to pause my other threads and start to post pics while still fresh memories from my trip to Brussels and Madrid - both of them were really great. In overall, I spent about 1,5 days in Brussels and 4 days in Madrid and took about 1500 photos from which best part I will try to show here. So, this will be long-term thread revealing what I saw in these cities and few other views between.
1. Breakfast in Riga airport - here, on the second floor is a good "Lido" eating-place which is adapted here to more international choice (basically, "Lido" is serving more of Latvian cuisine in Latvia, but it's adapting to local tastes in countries where it has opened it's restaurants). So, this meal was something close to traditional English breakfasts - just what I need from mornings. It costed about 4 Euros and it was cheapest meal in all my trip, because both in Belgium and Spain I couldn't find a meal below 7 EUR.
2. Up above and looking down to Latvia countryside.
3. I think it's Bornholm - Danish island on the Baltic sea.
4. Some other Danish or maybe German island with close to beach looking even a bit tropical. I observed that clouds mostly stays above land areas, keeping sea free of them.
5. Now we can start "Guess the city" here. I have no idea what is this one. Maybe you know? Maybe even live in it?
6. Another city which we could decode here:
7. Some countryside most probably in Western Germany:
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9. Charleroi airport (about 60 km from Brussels) has completely changed since I was there first time in 2005. The old small terminal has been closed and the new one opened instead. However, it is already outdated. CRL growth has been so rapid (last year - 32%, in 2009 - 33%) that it has exceeded it's capacity again (last year it had 5 195 372 passengers). And that can be felt when there - airport were overcrowded almost 24 hours a day (I spend my last day-night there).
10. CRL has developed also very solid airport city around it and it's called very proudly as "aeropolis".
11. And now we have arrived in Brussels. There are some interesting modern buildings around the Midi (Brussels-south) station.
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14. Brussels isn't a bicycle-city, I saw few bicyclists there. Rather weird, especially when knowing nearby Netherland's passion to cycling.
15. One thing which surprised me here - how these trees looked so freshly green like in April. How that's achieved?
16. I was surprised also about the vast areas built by this type of lovely houses in Brussels. This is already outside centre, but they still continues for kilometres. How old are they - really pre-WW2?
To be continued...
1. Breakfast in Riga airport - here, on the second floor is a good "Lido" eating-place which is adapted here to more international choice (basically, "Lido" is serving more of Latvian cuisine in Latvia, but it's adapting to local tastes in countries where it has opened it's restaurants). So, this meal was something close to traditional English breakfasts - just what I need from mornings. It costed about 4 Euros and it was cheapest meal in all my trip, because both in Belgium and Spain I couldn't find a meal below 7 EUR.
2. Up above and looking down to Latvia countryside.
3. I think it's Bornholm - Danish island on the Baltic sea.
4. Some other Danish or maybe German island with close to beach looking even a bit tropical. I observed that clouds mostly stays above land areas, keeping sea free of them.
5. Now we can start "Guess the city" here. I have no idea what is this one. Maybe you know? Maybe even live in it?
6. Another city which we could decode here:
7. Some countryside most probably in Western Germany:
8.
9. Charleroi airport (about 60 km from Brussels) has completely changed since I was there first time in 2005. The old small terminal has been closed and the new one opened instead. However, it is already outdated. CRL growth has been so rapid (last year - 32%, in 2009 - 33%) that it has exceeded it's capacity again (last year it had 5 195 372 passengers). And that can be felt when there - airport were overcrowded almost 24 hours a day (I spend my last day-night there).
10. CRL has developed also very solid airport city around it and it's called very proudly as "aeropolis".
11. And now we have arrived in Brussels. There are some interesting modern buildings around the Midi (Brussels-south) station.
12.
13.
14. Brussels isn't a bicycle-city, I saw few bicyclists there. Rather weird, especially when knowing nearby Netherland's passion to cycling.
15. One thing which surprised me here - how these trees looked so freshly green like in April. How that's achieved?
16. I was surprised also about the vast areas built by this type of lovely houses in Brussels. This is already outside centre, but they still continues for kilometres. How old are they - really pre-WW2?
To be continued...