The Ponds of Ixelles

If you've been reading the blog, you might think all I do is drink beer and watch cartoons, but' it's just not true! I do a bit of that, but today we did something else. The morning was warm and bright, so we set on foot to find one of the famed street markets here in Brussels. Today we chose to walk south a bit to the Ponds of Ixelles.

The ponds are just a few pleasant looking ponds (cyanobacteria? don't swim) with numerous street vendors arranged about them. They are open Saturdays and Sundays until about 1:00 PM. The vendors sell mostly food items.





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You can buy all sorts of food at The Ponds, but for me I liked best the bread vendors and a huge olive stand. You could sample the olives, in fact they insist. "Ze olives are not for ze looking, zey are for ze eating!". So we tried a few and then bought some spicy-olive mix.

We also found a cheese vendor with the Fig-filled Goat cheese we liked from Paris. I think the Ponds will now be part of our regular Sunday grocery shopping.