Arrival in Brussels
Sunday, October 20, 1991
The rain stopped long enough for us to cook breakfast and put up our wet tent. We found no English speaking Churches in Mons, so we studied the Prophet John in our Bible. We arrived in Brussels, studied numerous corner street maps, and found our hotel - The Royal Windsor Hotel.
In the afternoon we visited the “Grand Place”, beautiful old buildings, truly a grand looking place, stopping as we went at numerous lace and chocolate shops. Oh! the calories. we also visited the famous statue “Mannekin Pis”. Yes, a little boy doing his thing. we took the Metro to “Rick’s Place” - excellent ribs and American cuisine.
Wednesday, July 24, 1991
Rain in Paris
Real cool today as a cool front passed thru in the night bringing the beautiful sound of rain in the early morning hours. Planted the rest of my geraniums and a few more seeds I took off plants in the garden. Lots of beautiful, dark, heavy rain clouds this afternoon as a storm passes thru.
The rain is so beautiful to watch from our top floor apartment as it flows thru the trees and onto the garden. David took our car in for its first check up today. We hope he finally gets all the proper stickers and papers. It’s been an education to owning a car here.
More grocery shopping today. I now wait until after 2pm. Between 12 Noon and 2pm most of the shops close for lunch so if you want to browse before buying groceries, it’s not possible. Plus you have a lot of people from the closed shops at the grocery store during that time.
More beautiful rain falling and a surprise call from Twina tonight. We could have talked for hours but decided to make a list and save it for our trip home soon.