Europe 2012 - Brussels

After our brief stop in Holland, we pushed on into Belgium and went looking for a campsite in Brussels. Second attempt and we found one after the first which claimed to be a campsite had a sign up saying it didn't admit any campers (both tents and caravans!). The site we did find turned out to be fine despite some resident Irish tinkers living at one end with about a million little brats.

We found three caches in Brussels all in the same area near to the European Parliament buildings. The first of these was just outside the Museum of Natural Sciences where we had a great visit. The museum is a little too big and by the end we were struggling but their collection of huge dinosaur skeletons was brilliant (even if they stuck most of them together wrongly!!). The cache, aptly named Museum was located at the bike stands and was found by the kids.

Next up was a cache called Dark Eye which made sense when you reached the GZ as there was a big sign with an outline of an eye draw on it in black indicating that the area beyond it was under surveillance. Finally and the best of the three was a cache located right next to the main Parliament building in a small garden. This garden contains a section of the Berlin Wall which was brought here after the wall came down. We hadn't expected to see this and had no idea it was even here so finding it was purely thanks to this cache, Le mur de Berlin.

After this we caught the underground into the city centre and although we had a quick look for one cache, the place was simply too busy to do any proper hunting so we decided to just enjoy the atmosphere, and of course the waffles!