This One Time In Russia...: Brussels, Belgium

Brussels was another city in which I never really knew where I was, but I just kinda found myself in places I wanted to be. I arrived on an early train and diddlefarted (is there a hyphen in there somewhere?) for a couple hours trying to find my hostel. As it turns out, once again googlemaps is not sufficient to solve the streets in Europe. The hostel was located on Elephant Street, which wasn't where my map said it was. I found it, eventually, in the middle of the Muslim neighborhood.
First thing I noticed was Belgium is weird. It's just weird. There are all sorts of public art things, and close to the center, there is a really creepy children's carousel. It would have given me nightmares when I was little.

The main square is really beautiful, but really busy. When I was there it was filled with Russian tourists, who later in the day, I helped order waffles.

Found the He-Pisser. Spent over an hour finding the She-Pisser. They are both unsatisfyingly small.
Brussels is smelly. Like, non-stop sewer smell.

The Palace of Justice is as grand as the name, but just like everything else you want to see in Europe, it' under repairs.
Went to see the EU. In front of one of the buildings is a chunk of the Berlin Wall as well as a pretty Soviet looking statue of a woman thrusting the euro to the heavens.
MUSIC MUSEUM-SECOND COOLEST ONE I'VE BEEN TO. The coolest one is in South Dakota. This one was nice, but it left me wanting. It covers rather well the earlier musical instruments, but leaves modern innovation and non-western instruments lacking. Their section on electronic instruments is left in a corner in the basement. But, nonetheless, they had a Boehm bassoon, rothophones, original Sax-ophones, Saurrusophones, clarinets with automatic throat tones, Schaffer-system flute/clarinet/oboe, and an ondes-martenot. COOL.

The metro in Brussels was designed by a 2 year old. It's a spiral shape with multiple lines overlapping for multiple stations. There were like 4 or 5 stations in the center that shared the same 4 lines. How impractical!
Saw the Atom.