Brussels:Day 2

It was so nice not to have to rush and catch a plane/train anywhere. Royal Museum of the Army and of Military History opens at 9am and it's free. This would be my number 1 best pic of the trip. It has a huge aviation section with cool helicopters in it like the Hind. And some cool tanks. Another plus is it houses a very nice cafe with very a good menu and great tasting food. There were some other interesting things there but we didn't get to see them because those areas got closed off when the staff there went to lunch. Egal. It's the European way.

Next stop-Chocolate museum.5Euros each. It's actually quite small and easy to miss as it is housed in an apartment. You get a free biscuit
dipped in freshly melted chocolate to start and finish with a demonstration of hand-made chocolates. It couldn't really measure up to the Cologne chocolate museum but it was worthwhile; Cologne was mostly manufactured chocolate and this was handmade chocolates.
The Mannequin Pis
After all the hype, it was rather disappointing that it was so small. Almost not worth a photo but we're
tourists so...whatever.
Maison du Roi which holds the historical city museum-2.50Euros. Number 2 or 3 on my list of must sees. It houses the costumes of the Mannequin Pis. There are lots of legends about this little statue. A true story is that at one stage a french platoon stole the Mannequin. They were made to return it. Whereby the Mannequin was knighted.Which meant that henceforth, whenever the soldiers walked passed the Mannequin, they had to salute it.

This bit of history suddenly made the statue more interesting and worthwhile for me.