Friday 29th July

Friday 29^th July – Trip to Brussels

The journey to Brussels was not going to be that long so we decided to have a slow start to the day as the boys were shattered after their trip to Eurodisney.  In fact getting them up in some cases was quite a task.  We did a big wash-up and a bid farewell to Paris although we were very glad to leave the campsite, which was without doubt the worst we had stayed in during our road trip.  Even the Italians had better facilities.  What was worse was the constant expense at every turn.

Our trip to Brussels was pretty uneventful and we managed to get there in 4hrs.  We drove into the centre and parked up before looking up some things to do and finding that there was a fun park and mini-Europe to the north of the city.  We headed off there and went into a car park;  well it wasn’t that simple really as it was a tight squeeze into the car park and then the barrier came down on the winne!  We made it in and I found a space for the ‘beast’.  We were just heading in to the park when three security guards appeared and accused us of parking in the wrong place and breaking their barrier.  We managed to persuade them of our innocence but it took a while and then we had to mend the barrier.  All of which took time.  But in the end no damage was done.

We went around the mini-Europe at vaste expense which will no doubt go to shoring up the EU budget deficit and had lots of pictures taken outside the (mini) sites of Europe.  It took  an hour and a half to go round the site which was followed by supper and then off to Waterloo.  It took us half an hour to get to Waterloo where we camped in a car park.