(Part of a series. Other parts: one, two, three)
After Brussels, the plan was to drive to Berlin and spend four or five days there. There was to be a stop on the way, in a city called Hamm in northern Germany. You probably would not find it in the tourist guides; its attraction lay in a detail that made it special to us: the town was home to a Hindu temple, the largest of its kind in Germany. Read the rest of this entry »
(Third part of a series; first and second)
Day 4 – Brussels (Continued from previous entry)
In the evening, after we got back from the trip to the Brussels city centre, Dad and I went for a walk in the neighborhood. Google Maps indicated that a little distance from the apartment there was an irregular blue shape – a water body; I hadn’t seen that side yet, and we decided to explore. The walk took us across a main road with moderate traffic into a residential zone with tall modern apartments spaciously laid out in green surroundings, and a few streets with old buildings that seemed to grow out of and into each other. A little later we reached the “water body” - a large pond bordered with a patch of green. Read the rest of this entry »
