Belgium
About Brussels
Brussels hides one of Europe's most spectacular squares behind a tangle of bureaucratic boulevards and steep, baffling streets.
Step into the Grand Place after dark and the gilded guildhalls glow like something staged; step back out and you're among comic-strip murals and Art Nouveau curves. It's the capital of the EU and faintly embarrassed about it, far more interested in chocolate, mussels and a good argument over fries.
Flemish and French rub along uneasily, and the result is a city that refuses to take itself too seriously.
Drink a Trappist beer brewed by monks, eat moules-frites, and let a waffle ruin your shirt.
Get to Brussels
Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.
Buses from Brussels
Day trips from Brussels
- Half day
Hallerbos
~30 min
, ~1 h 
A beech forest that turns violet for a few weeks each spring, when millions of wild bluebells flower beneath the canopy. Catch it from mid-April to early May.
- Day trip
Dinant
~1.5 hA town squeezed between the Meuse river and a sheer cliff, with a citadel on top, an onion-domed church below, and saxophones (invented here) celebrated along the bridge.
About Belgium
Beer, gables and very good chips
Guild-house squares, monastery beers that each come in their own glass, and three languages sharing one small kingdom without much drama.
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