Brussels New Years Eve

Celebrating the arrival of 2013 in Brussels was last minute decision based on price. We had searched around for other popular destinations, but the sky-rocketing prices in Edinburgh for Hogmanay and the mark-up on warmer Mediterranean options of Portugal, Spain and Malta; meant that we had limited options. Even though by the time December arrived and we were looking forward to sunshine and respite from a cold dreary stint of London weather; unfortunately the land of beer, waffles, mussels and chocolate did not offer appropriate festive weather and for the three days of our trip, it rained, rained and rained.

Brussels, Belgium

Travelling from Bruges to Brussels takes about an hour long journey. We eventually landed ourselves at the Central station and headed in the direction of the main square - Grand Place, voted the most beautiful square in Europe in 2010.

Brussels has often been mentioned by our expat friends as the boring second city compared to the beauty of Bruges as it was full of EU government buildings. We concluded otherwise, finding it to have just as much charm, great food and interesting architecture as Bruges.