Tuesday june the 7, 2005.

Main impression:
Last day in Belgium.

Odor:
The smell of cacao at Irsi chocolate shop.

Color:
Shapes and colors at the Horta museum.

Flavor:
The "oiseau sans tête" (headless bird) tasted in a café at midday.

Sound:
The night I arrived in Brussels I listened to "Kind of Blue" from Miles Davis. I don't have the CD nor the CD player anymore but I would like to listen to it today.

Texture/sentation:
Sadness when I left the Delirium Café after a last beer in Belgium.

Day summary:
In the morning, I mentioned to Anne-Marie de Groot that I want to go to "Boulevard Sylvain Dupuis". I have learned of the existence of this boulevard while preparing my trip and wanted to take a pic of the street plate. Anne-Marie propose to give me a lift since it's not easy to find and she would use the occasion to stop by an hospital in the sector.

After a fast shot and a stop at the hospital she give me a lift near the house of Monsieur L.-M. Carpentier who his a comic strip creator (he drawed the labels from Brasserie à vapeur among others) and have prepared coasters for my friends of Ma bière newspaper.

In fact Dumdum asked me if I could bring seven kilos of coasters that he ordered during his previous visit in Belgium in february. I was please to accept but I don't know ir it would be cheaper than postal service since it will be over limit baggages.

Mister Carpentier is very interesting and kind, I ask him if it bother him if I go to visit the Horta museum two street further and get back later to take the coasters so I don't have to carry them along. That doesen't bother him so I find a litle bistro where I take an "oiseau sans tête" (headless bird) with a blue Chimay. The "oiseau sans tête" is a reciepe that have many variations, to summaryse we can say that it's a slim slice of meat (veal, chiken or beef) that you roll and fill with filling, sausage meat or even vegetables. All is tied, browned in a pan and put in the oven to cook over a low heat. The variation I took was a beef slice filled with sausage meat, very good.

After I visited the Horta museum who is very intersting if you like architecture and Art nouveau desing. In fact the museum is the house of the architect that he created from general architecture to smaller details as lamps, door handles and stairways ramps.

Returning to mister Carpentier, while we take a beer together, I ask him if he know a good place to buy chocolate and he sugest the Irsi chocolate shop. I go there to buy a few chocolate boxes to bring back to my family and friends.

While I walk back toward the subway I find a shop where they sell comics I buy myself a T-shirt and a Gaston Lagaffe cup, my hero!

I carry all my packs back to the house and start to make my lugage for tomorow morning. Anne-Marie will reserve a taxi since I have to leave around 6:00 AM.

Then I go eat near the Grand-Place and go for a last beer at Délirium Café, a Wesvleteren 12. Leaving the café I feel a pinch to the heart, I'm sad because I don't know when I will be able to aford an other trip like that.