Yesterday we all (me, Naomi, Jenee, and the girls) went to Leuven, roughly 15 miles east of Brussels. We unintentionally took the slow local train out, which was about 40 minutes with numerous stops, but we got it right on the return trip with the 20-minute express back to Brussels. Central Leuven is basically a circle of diameter 2 km or so. The train station was on the east side of this circle, and we walked to the center. Essentially at the exact center of the circle was the beautiful, baroque city hall, which in style could have held its own in Brussels' Grand Place (where Brussels own city hall is located). There was a wedding party having pictures taken on the front steps of the city hall, and we wandered around the pretty blocks and squares until we found a nice place for an outdoor lunch. After lunch, we wandered some more. There were several outdoor markets, variously selling antiques, bandes dessinées (comic books), and foods. We got ice cream cones, and the girls left a trail of melted ice cream in case we needed to find the ice cream store again. The other end of our ice cream trail was a plaza by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven). The plaza had the largest threading needle I've ever seen, probably 50 feet or more, standing up like a flagpole with a giant beetle skewered near the top.
Leuven seemed like a very nice town, with beautiful squares and architecture. Frankly I'm not exactly sure what to do there besides just wander around—and this is not meant to imply there's nothing to do there—but wander around we did, and we enjoyed it.
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