When our world is normal and without a vicious virus, each year the Chinese comunity in Brussels celebrates it's New Year on the Grand'Place in Brussels. It's always a big event and brings a bit of exotic holiday ambiance.
The dragons and other fancy costumes are so colorful. There are also Chinese specialities which are offered. Not far from the Grand'Place in one street are all Chinese shops and restaurants and is a little China town compared to the once in San Francisco or London.
This year of course it was cancelled so I found a few photos from the years before.
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It is a wonderfully colourful spectacle. Ours Chinese New Year celebrations were going ahead in a reduced form but then we were locked down for a week after a minor outbreak and nothing happened.
ReplyDeleteBrussels too? Everywhere there are small China 'towns' It usually starts with chinese food: restaurants and specialty little shops, then markets, and so on. I've visited the chinese market in Belgrade and I was quite dissappointed .
ReplyDeleteI missed seeing the celebrations this year. Your photos are a good reminder of the colour of the occasion.
ReplyDeleteLooks like great fun. Hopefully you will get to see it again next year.
ReplyDeleteWonderful shots!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful celebration (last year). Have a marvellous day! We send Rosie a happy day too! And who knows, maybe her horoscope will come true-after all today is the first day of the whole new week!
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