Visiting the Modern Art
Museum in Brussels (Belgium) with Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
On
a quick trip to Brussels (Belgium), my friend Eileen and I planned to visit the
Modern Art Museum in downtown Brussels to view their collection of the Belgian
Surrealist painter René Magritte.
First,
we ate lunch at a restaurant called the Moule Sacré that had good food at a
good price. Mussels are called the “poor
man’s oysters,” but I noticed that the Belgians, who ate them had become rather
wealthy. Mussels also taste good especially
when made with crème fraîche, shallots, and white wine.
Eileen
and I tried a menu special that had the following items on it:
-avocado
halves with chopped, boiled shrimp and creamy, estragon dressing
-Scottish
smoked salmon with rye bread and salted butter
-Dames
Blanches sundaes made with vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, and whipped
cream
After
lunch, we went to the Modern Art Museum well fed and eager to view the
Surrealist paintings by René Magritte.
I
loved Magritte’s painting of a train coming out of a fireplace as well as his painting
of a baguette loaf of bread floating in the sky.
After
visiting the Museum, Eileen walked me to the Gare du Midi, so I could go back
to Paris.
I
read a book about Hong Kong all the way home.
I liked being Miss – Information even when I was young.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup of Chopsticks and Marrying France
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