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The calendar of plenary sessions indicates that your surmise that no sessions had taken place there of late is probably correct. The "travelling circus" is in Strasbourg this week, and was last in Brussels on Feb 25th.
Didn't know you were in town DG!

Yes, externally at least not the most interesting part of Brussels...

You could be anywhere really. The architecture has the same 'bland and unoffensive' design vibe as we get with Euro banknotes.
Jonathan Meades (PBUH) has made the point that, around the time the rest of the world was building massive cinemas, the Belgians were building massive churches.

Their love of pious gigantism has evidently transferred to celebrating the EU.
This is an interesting expansion of the blog.

By coincidence I'm in Brussels today too (for work) and hoping to get an hour in the military museum before getting the train home.

I'll keep my eyes open for anyone outside Zuidstation photographing the No. 50 bus.
We're the laminated A4 sheets In all 24 languages?

dg writes: Just French and English.
Thanks, DG. Sounds like you've taken another for the team!

BTW - the 'How to Wash Your Hands' is pretty important. Specially bearing in mind you were in a place frequented by people from all over. Ideal site for the wide spread of germs.
I had a weekend in Brussels in December. If I'd known I could have done this I would. Something to keep in mind for a future visit, I think.
"We're the laminated A4 sheets In all 24 languages?

dg writes: Just French and English. "

The Germans don't need it. The Italians don't bother.

This is the closest I will ever come to racism. Hope no one minds.
OMG ! DG is in BXL ! But of course it had to be the week when I'm sick at home instead of working in Brussels. Oh well, I hope you'll tell us your experience of the local public transport network. The metro where you actually have to pull a handle yourself to open the door, the annoying music inside the stations, maybe the fare-dodgers who stick to you at the entrance gates...

About the "How to wash your hands" posters, I guess they're probably not EU-specific but adapted from the World Health Organization guidelines to hand wash, hence the bilinguial text. We have the same at my workplace. They go back to a few years ago, during one of the announced pandemics, like H5N1 or someting like that.

Here's the original poster : http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/How_To_HandWash_Poster.pdf
Plus use a single-use towel to open tap and push soap button? This is most important...it the contact with a "dirty" tap/button/door handle/toilet lid (use your shoe to lift?) that probably means you have to wash your hands thoroughly in the first place. Probably more guidance required on how to stay clean in the first place...
Could the info on the A4 sheets not be downloaded onto a smatphone via the Wi-Fi...? Surely the paperless ethos is still strong in the EU...
We seem to have traded places (almost) this week. Hopefully you've planned to pop up to my neck of the woods to visit the best city in Belgium, Ghent.
I'll definitely make a point of visiting the European Parliament. It will be the second Parliament I'll have visited thanks to you writing up about it, I popped into the UK Parliament the other day after your February visit.
If you are collecting parliaments, why not pop into the Welsh Assembly one day? I went there last summer while in Cardiff and the place was pretty much deserted. It is free to get in, and the security check at the start is no more hassle than what you go through at St Pancras before boarding the Eurostar.










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