Brussels' Grand Place

Our itinerary back to the US involved a train trip from Amsterdam to Brussels. We got into our hotel in Brussels sufficiently early to hop another train from the airport to downtown. There certainly are larger squares in Europe, but, especially at night, none of them comes close to the beauty and vitality of Brussells' late Medieval/Renaissance Grand Place. A beautiful warm evening there, drinks at one of the many cafes on the square, was an irresistible end to our 2015 European tour.

City hall; 15th century Gothic

Panning around; mostly guild houses originally

The usual renovation at the far end; which turned out to be the
perfect place for drinks and for viewing the bits not being renovated

More panning around

Ditto, as the sun goes down and the lights go up

Thus

More panning

At the cafe

Photograph by a stranger

Vicki mixes her own citrone presse

While I sample the Belgian beers

Admiring the surroundings

Thus, an attempted panorama

And thus

A last look

And a final ussie