WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - MINI EUROPE

If you want to visit whole Europe still with the UK and Brexit replicas, in an hour, or if you run you can make it maybe in half an hour, come to MINI EUROPE in Brussels, just underneath the ATOMIUM. We visited it in two hours, but if you want really to go in all details, you can also spend the whole day there.  HERE  are listed all the countries and their famous attractions

An overview of MINI EUROPE taken with a Drone

 

After having strolled through Europe we had booked a table in the Atomium Restaurant, which is in the last and highest ball.  

From there you have a very clear (depending on the weather) view of whole Brussels !  

You can see some pictures from the inside of the Restaurant in the previous post. 

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AWWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND JULY 8

 

Charlie when he was still amongst us and was our bodyguard when Nicole and I went on vacation to Normandy.

 

 

Linking to AWWW MONDAYS

 

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WEEKEND 

Usually I don't care that much about Birthday celebrations, but this one was special because it was a milestone birthday, I turned 80. I wanted to do something special.  

I made a few suggestions to my son, e.g. make a baloon ride over Waterloo. But that didn't work because my DIL gets dizzy. Then I wanted to visit a grotto, but my son was afraid that I would trip and fall. 

I can't remember why I suddenly thought, why don't we go to "Little Europe" and then in the restaurant of the last sphere of the Atomium. That was something special. Everyone agreed with that. 

 

The Atomium is a landmark modernist building in Brussels, Belgium, originally constructed as the centrepiece of the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58).

 

My little 12 year old grandson                     

 

In the last ball is a very nice and modern restaurant. The food was extremely good and the presentation an artwork. The portions were enough even for my two men who both eat like horses. 

 

This was the main course, Salmon, a Steak, and cod. Toby tried to make a selfie from the three of us and cut his father's face off. 

The ceiling

 

Son and Grandson

The inside of the restaurant

The meal lasted quite some time, we started at 7 pm and came out at 10.30 ! The elevator in the middle tube which takes you to the restaurant, is so quick, that you almost not realize that you arrived already.

It had been very hot this day 30°C and before we went to the restaurant, we visited "Little Europe" which is just underneath. I surprised myself that I had no health problems at all, I walked around like if was 20, despite the sun shining on my head, but after an hour I had to sit down in the shade and had a bottle of water. 

I was really happy that my birthday went so well, and that I had nothing, and could breath and walk. And when the two had brought me home and left for Amsterdam, I wasn't even tired !

I will write another post about "Mini Europe". It is so interesting for adults and children and so well done, you walk through whole Europe, through all countries, with all important buildings. I felt like a giant walking through all these countries. Big Ben just arrived at my shoulders !

 

I ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY WISHES. THAT WAS SO KIND OF YOU