Musical Instruments Museum

Boris and I visited this museum when we were in Brussels for the first time. It was our favorite then, and this time, Boris voted to spend as much time in this museum as we could. The best part of this museum is that you can listen to the recordings of almost all of the instruments that are on display. It’s overwhelming :). At some point, you simply can’t take in more, but you also can’t stop.

The thing that impressed me most is how many different kinds of music and musical instruments exist in the world and how little we know outside of our European experience.

Since there is no way to reproduce all the sounds we heard, tons of pictures.

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The Chocolate Museum in Brussels

There was no way I would miss this attraction!

So many things about chocolate I didn’t know before!

Mayan chocolate vessles
Sugar Hammers
Chocolate-making pots
Spanish chocolate cups
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Fast Forward

On Monday, I was in London, working for the whole day, not leaving the office. Then on Tuesday morning, I flew to Helsinki, and then I found out about the strike and about our flight cancellation and our new flight. Now we are in Brussels, and we have a great time here, but I find it very difficult to detach from work entirely. It was fine for most of the day today, but then we rerutrend to the hotel, and there were some conference-related things, and then something not-really-ork-but-sort-of. So…

That’s our second time in Brussels, and we like it again. Brussels has been good to us 🙂