Tomorrow (Sunday) we head back to Brussels. We will have one full day in Brussels on Monday and then we fly home on Tuesday.Grubb has covered a lot of what we did today in Liege. I have just a few photos to add. Above: Statue in Parc de la Boverie Above: Sculpture by the river
Day: May 16, 2026
Beating the Beer Lovers Marathon to the Parc
Rain wasn’t forecast until early in the evening so it was a perfect day to do a river walk. Okay, it wasn’t exactly warm, but that meant I wasn’t going to slow Ella down with my musing along the Meuse. We were going in the direction of Parc Boverie. This island park was the site…
Weirdness at the Wittert
We walked down into the downtown of Liége this morning from our apartment. Since it was a Saturday, the streets were practically empty. Ella stopped in at St. Paul’s Cathedral to check on a recent art exhibition and then we stopped for Belgian waffles Liége-style. They had a surgery density that the other Belgian waffle…
Migration in Belgium
Yesterday, we ducked into a bar called Sarajevo for Grubb’s much needed cappuccino. I noticed the young guy behind the bar was not a native French speaker and to my untrained ear, I thought it could be Turkish or perhaps Croatian. When I asked where he was originally from (crossing my fingers I wasn’t making an…
Liege style waffles
Late in the morning, after a walk into Liege and a gander at the University art museum, we stopped in at a cafe for a cappuccino and decided to try the Liege style waffle. Think of it as a pastry. Liege waffles are made from a brioche type dough rather than a liquid batter. They…
Lost Enlightenment
Yesterday inside the Curtius Museum I was contemplating a dark painting of the Christ child reaching for an apple Mary was holding when I got a text from Ella who was ahead of me in the museum. She said she was in the section of the Curtius covering the Enlightenment. “Just go down the stairs.”…