We had a relatively short stop for location #4 - we knew we would end in Amseterdam, but to get there from the Alps was a two-day trip, so we chose Brussels, which was about three-fourths of the way there. So a relatively long journey on Sunday, day eight of our trip, starting with a one-hour bus ride from Chamonix to Geneva (allowing us to set foot in Switzerland; we actually saw the hotel we stayed in nine years ago when we went to Switzerland on our first big family summer trip), followed by a train trip to Lyon and then a longer TGV ride from Lyon to Brussels. We got on the bus at 8am and arrived in Brussels around 5:30pm, so a long day.
We only had the rest of that night and until lunch-time the following day in Brussels, but we stayed right near the Grand Place, which is known as one of the most beautiful city squares in Europe, and it definitely lived up to it! We had a great dinner right on the square, and then the following day walked around the city a bit and also visited the European Parliament building, the headquarters of the EU.
Brussels is known for its beer!
One of the stretch of gilded buildings on the Grand Place
City Hall in Brussels, on the Grand Place
European Parliament "hemi-cycle" - which is the
main assembly room
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