Brussels' Midi Market

Plenty of local websites and bloggers will tell you about the colourful Sunday morning market near Brussels' South station, aka the Midi-market, about the abundance of fruits, vegetables, cheap clothes, household things, plants and flowers, about the African and/or Mediterranean spirit but what struck me most this morning was that Magritte and Tintin are never far away. 

Traveling with Tintin

Although I have been by here thousands of times, it was not until last week that I - and not for any particular reason - captured it for This is Belgium.  The fresco has been put up in 2007  at the occasion of the centenary celebrations of Herge's birthday. It decorates the walls of Brussels Midi Train station. " The drawing is derived from  (the comic strip album) Tintin in America, first published in 1932".

http://visitbrussels.be/bitc/BE_en/minisite_tintin/brussels-et-tintin.do