This apartment is very spacious, and the bed is big and comfortable. Communication with Léa was excellent. Check in was very easy. All fine.
But, my favorite thing about the apartment is the lively and diverse neighborhood surrounding it. Not fancy and not trendy, but authentic.
We would spend the day among the grand boulevards and opulent buildings and lovely gardens in Brussels. Then we would return each afternoon to the true splendors of a real community. People schlepping home bags of groceries with loaves of bread sticking out of the top. The guy around the corner with the curbside car wash business, who evidently also does small repairs. Kids running amok. Groups of ladies in headscarves bending over crates of fruit debating the merits of the individual selections. The neighborhood business owner whose tiny store is packed with 10,000 different items, and knows exactly where every item is. Old men congregating on the corner gesturing grandly while discussing in exotic languages the issues of the day.
These will be among my favorite memories of Brussels.