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16. 08. 1999 Brussels (BELGIUM) 5.25 a.m. Takx wakes me alarmed! We have missed the ferry! After various adventures, ticket changes, queues etc. etc. we manage to set foot again in Calais, in France, and from there, with a couple from Turin we met at the port, we set off at once for Brussels! This city looks like an old dusty room! [Takx]: It is a strange city, and it is the worthy capital of Belgium which, as far as I can see from the train windows, has the same characteristics. More than a "dusty room" it gives me the idea of a "dusty painting", because to discover its beauty you would first have to clean it. Everything is dull, scruffy, the buildings dim like mannequins with hollow eye sockets. And then it rejects colour: garish colours like those of the McDonald's signs clash with an endless series of shades of grey.

It is a poisoned city that no one hears agonising, it takes enough insensitivity or a strong stomach to put up with Brussels, and I like it enormously!