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It starts to smell like Christmas!

Here I am again, faraway from home. I travel frequently to Brussels with my work. Half of my team is located here.
Each time I come to Brussels I have different feelings and see it with other eyes.
I have experienced almost all the feelings: love, hate, anger, sad, anxiety. This time I feel I'm rediscovering its beauty.
I didn't walk far from the hotel, which is close enough to the office, but the streets around were enough to fall in love again with it.
The Christmas scent is in the air. The tables outside of the terraces are decorated with candles and poinsettias.
On one of these terraces, more specifically to "La Terrasse", I had the most delicious hot chocolate ever. The waitress brought me a cup with steamed milk and a small bowl with chocolate chips and you combine them together. The result is very delightful. Last weekend I attended a presentation about the chocolate history in European culture. I felt I was drinking hot chocolate after a receipe old from the last century.
The weather was very nice. Sunny and warm.
Tomorrow I'm flying to Barcelona and then back home.
Hot chocolate 
My hotel room had exit to the garden
Morning in Park Cinqantanaire 
Sunset from the plane
Christmas lights on the street

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