Again we stumbled across another festival today. The locals were selling belgium specialties in the main square. This is the city where 'The Smurfs' started so we had a look through the comic strip museum. Then we spent the afternoon looking at all these dinosaurs at National Science Museum which were found in southern Belgium.
We did some more beer tasting today including cherry and raspberry beer, but my favourite was the Grimbergen dark beer (they also call it Abbey beer brewed by the monks).
We were just in time to see the unravelling of Mannakin Piss new Columbian costume where they had a countdown and even sung songs
When the man turns the wheel it plays songs
The giants which walked throughout the square
We tried some Bodding cake a thick heavy cake covered in rum special to Brussels.
They had some nice stained windows at the cathedral
The first drawings of the smurfs at the comic strip museum
The smurfs started as comics before they turned into a tv series
Tintin
The smurfs
In March 1878 in St Barabaras coal mine in Bernissart (west Belguim) miners encountered iguanodon bones at 332m. Further digs found more and more at different levels
The iguanodon skeletons started to crumble so they were protected with shellac. It was just so cool that we were sanding there right in front of real live dinosaur bones that had been their in place since 1902.
Tricerotops horridus (cast from Montana, USA)
Dimetrodon a synapsid which lived before the dinosaurs
Tyrannosaura regina or T.Rex my favourite (cast from South Dakota, USA)
Right foreleg of a giant Sauropod
Stegosaurus stenops (cast from Wyoming, USA)
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