Of course the first line is meant to read "...so I am NOT surprised
that you found it expensive."
Fingers faster than brain.
Nathan
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On Feb 15, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Thanks for looking, Chris.
>
> The street with the restaurants is a classic tourist trap, so I am now
> surprised that you found it expensive. Few locals would ever eat in
> those restaurants. One of the standard tricks they use is a classic
> bait-and-switch method: on the menu board outside there is a great-
> sounding special menu at a reasonable price, so you go in, sit down,
> get your drinks, but when it is time to order the food, it invariably
> turns out that the dish on special is no longer available because they
> ran out of some critical ingredient. But of course you can simply
> order a la carte ;-)
>
> On the Grand' Place itself there is a good restaurant, ´t Kelderke,
> which servers all the traditional Belgian dishes like stoemp,
> waterzooi etc., along with a great beer selection.
>
> Of course, with the pound only worth about € 1.10 now, travelling to
> the Continent has become more expensive for UK folk--the same
> phenomenon that has made it a lot cheaper for me to support my son at
> university in England and that also has made it possible for me to buy
> my M8 in Scotland at a saving of at least € 1000 compared to buying it
> here.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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>
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>
>
>
> On Feb 15, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Nathan. As well as enjoying many of those images, they
>> provided a balanced view of the city of Brussels. I have always
>> found
>> the place to be rather pretentious and over-priced. The cost of
>> visiting Belgium was bad last Summer, but it's even worse now for the
>> Brits with the ghastly exchange rate. I visited Brussels during the
>> BFr days, pre-Euro, and felt that I was ripped off everywhere I went
>> (especially in the alleyway you showed in one of your photos); I bet
>> that it's beyond belief now.
>>
>> And the sooner we get rid of the second European Parliament buildings
>> the better off we'll all be ...
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 15 Feb 2009, at 15:44, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>>
>>> As many of you know, I spent last weekend in Brussels, largely
>>> walking
>>> around familiar places, many of which are a bit off the beaten path,
>>> at least from a tourist's point of view. I lived in Brussels between
>>> 1995 and 2000 and so have many favourite spots in the city. This
>>> collection takes you to some of those spots:
>>>
>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu/brussels0209/
>>>
>>> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>>
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