Top of the hill Brussels 

As the river flooded too often, worldly leaders and clergy preferred to settle high on the hills of Brussels.  Not only was it dryer, people would literally have had to look up to see their princes.  Today still, this is where power resides : no less than three parliaments, the royal palace, Royal square (called place des Armes in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair), the posh Sablon area where two adventurous people started a market in … antiques in the 1960’s.  Through Egmont park with a statue of Peter Pan, which once served for target practice, we reach the magnomalous Palace of Justice, from where the panorama is really breathtaking !