Brilliant Brussels

Hello all (not that anyone is signed up to read this yet but hello all the same).

So I've started my first ever blog after contemplating it for a while and finally getting the internet back into my home.

I have been luck enough to visit Brussels this weekend and I am totally converted. It is an amazing city where you can't help but be inspired everywhere you look. I stumbled upon a shop which was like a little bit of junk shop heaven - Lucien Cravate.

If you ever get to go to Brussels I highly recommend a visit if you like retro/vintage objects, ceramics and accessories. Its only open Monday to Saturday 12pm to 6.30pm, I'll track down the address on my map and let you know.

There is also a fairly big flea market (address to follow) which had everything and anything - stag heads, stuffed emu's, clothes and a whole host of other objects of interest. I am now the proud owner of a lovely vase/jug made in West Germany, a small oil painting and a very eames era looking tin. I did fall in love with a mini piano and two stuffed deer heads (loved them and they kinda freaked me out too, I didn't dare ask the price as I was too sacred to take them on the Eurostar!). We went on Sunday and I think the prices were higher than had been reported from people who had been in the week. They do haggle especially when you screw your face up as much as I did...