Category: Flower Carpet 2022
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Icons of Innovation and Chocolate Creation 🇧🇪
Our final full day in Brussels began with a picnic breakfast and an early visit to the Atomium. Built for the 1958 World’s Fair (Expo 58), the Atomium symbolizes scientific optimism and progress. Its nine connected spheres form a magnified model of an iron crystal—165 billion times larger than the real structure. From the top…
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Antwerp Adventures and a Sea of Flowers 🇧🇪
We caught the IC train north to Antwerp, just under an hour away. The city’s Central Station is often called the most beautiful train station in Europe—and for good reason. Built between 1895 and 1905, it combines iron, marble, and glass in spectacular harmony, earning the nickname “the railway cathedral.” Our morning began with an…
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Arriving in the Capital of Europe 🇧🇪
We arrived in Belgium’s capital after an easy morning train ride, excited to experience one of Europe’s most spectacular summer traditions — the Brussels Flower Carpet, an ephemeral work of art covering the Grand Place with hundreds of thousands of begonias. Every two years since 1971, volunteers carefully assemble these blossoms into intricate patterns that…