You match with Maya on Tinder, you agree you don't fancy each other, but she makes you laugh till it hurts.

She dragged you to a mate house on the outskirts of the city, and you actually have a great time.

You connect with some new people, like Isaac, and decide to go to the gallery in the city centre,

where you bond over your shared appreciation of silence.

And bit by bit, the world starts to feel so full of possibilities and you think what if I hadn't met

Maya on tinder it starts with a swipe download the app now Oh. Ooh, it's cold in Brussels. It's cold in Brussels. Mind it's cold everywhere isn't it.

I don't think there's any great difference between the temperature back at home and the Belgian capital where I arrived late last night

jumping on a train as I do with increasing frequency to come to Brussels because I

flipping love the place. And by the way from where I live in

Southeast London it's almost exactly the same time to get to Manchester as it does to get to Brussels by train.

And quite often with a bit of luck it's cheaper as well and there's a little place that I'm staying just in San Gill, which is a 10 minute walk from the Guard of Midi, which is a brilliant part of Brussels, which is incredibly cheap and lovely and warm and cozy and interesting

and that's what Brussels is to me it's a kind of it's got a kind of

I mean it's got a kind of quirky architecture and it's got a quirky kind of vibe, but also, but not in a kind of self-conscious way or anything.

It's just a city, capital city that just gets on with it really.

And, you know, has got an identifiable flavor and characteristic all of its own.

It's unmistakably Brussels. the city of the city the main

with the cathedral for a unique mountain

and the noir cloche

like the mama the cochne And in my imagination that is often bound

the co-koy, who de diables on Pierre,

and in my imagination that is often bound up with

with the figure of the greatest, well the greatest musician ever to come out from,

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