Today my friends Lydia and Luc invited me to join them on a train trip to Liège, Belgium.

Few words … lots of pictures:

The train station in Liège – glorious curves and colours.

Lunch at the Bovaria.  I had a scrumptious ragu with big fat noodles.  Délicieux.  (We’re in the French part of Belgium)

We sat on a bench in front of La Boverie art museum for a long time … watching people stroll by and leaves flutter down.

Inside was a marvelous exhibition: Les Mondes de Paul Delvaux (a Belgian surrealist painter).  Here are my three favourites:

All these faces, sadly none of them smiling

I wonder what she’s thinking.

And this young woman.  Waiting for?  Going to?

What a colour in the sun!

We turned a corner in Liège centrum and saw this.  I gulped.  I also knew I had to do it.

La Montagne de Beuren … 374 satisfying and exhausting steps.

And then back down by tiny streets, our day nearing its end.  What a privilege to share this majesty with friends.