Day 22     Sunday, September 21, 2025

Our bnb is in a municipality of Brussels called Uccle. Brussels is the capital of Belgium, the headquarters of the European Union, and the headquarters for NATO. Bob went for a walk today and saw several embassies.  There are 183 embassies in Brussels and Bob counted 17 embassies within a ten block radius of our bnb.
This is the Hungarian Embassy.

The Ukrainian Embassy…

…looks like an apartment building.

The Russian embassy is on a huge estate that is two blocks long.  No building in sight but lots of security cameras and some white swans in the pond.

There is an Equestrian Centre right in Uccle.

The Rose Farm was built at the beginning of the 13th century and given to the town in 1971. It was restored, and is now used for cultural activities

Bob walks through part of Wolvendael Park on the way home. There is a School of the Arts located in the park.

I stayed home, rested and worked a bit on my blog.  I discovered something interesting.  If I open my blog from the email that is sent out to those who follow my blog many of the photos are distorted and appear stretched out. So if you are having this issue on your cell phone just think of the email as a notification that there is a new post and type trudymason.com in your browser rather than opening the email and trying to look at the post there.  This has something to do with the way I am editing my photos but I am not able to figure out how to change it so this doesn’t happen. I still have a lot to learn.

We leave for Luxembourg tomorrow and the weather isn’t looking very great.  So far this trip we have only had two sunny warm days…maybe that is just what it is going to be, cooler and wetter than we would like… but we can’t do anything about the weather.