We were pretty close.

When we were in Brussels last September, we stayed at a nice hotel near the Grand Place called The Bedford Hotel and Congress Centre.

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I showed some of our photos here.

The Grand Place is about four blocks from our hotel which is quite central. Also fairly central is Molenbeek where the leader of the Paris terrorist attack was captured today.

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To the left is the canal and across it, the Molenbeek neighborhood where the terrorists were holed up. We walked by it during our stay which was a few weeks before the attack. Our hotel was locked down for a week after the Paris attack as they searched for the perpetrators.
We were very close.

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2 Responses to “We were pretty close.”

  1. doombuggy says:
    March 19, 2016 at 2:29 pm

    Interesting.

    How much Muslim presence did you notice in Belgium?

  2. Michael Kennedy says:
    July 7, 2016 at 5:50 pm

    A lot in Brussels.