Donut's Daily Daguerreotype

Daguerreotype - (noun) an early photograph using a silvered plate and mercury vapour [named after L. Daguerre, French inventor, 1789-1851]

February 16, 2005

Euro Special

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Your blogger has spent a couple of days in Brussels, home of the European Commission and other horrors. Here's a few shots of the infamous Berlaymont building, housing several thousand Eurocrats. This rather horrid, impersonal steel and glass structure recently reopened after several years of asbetos stripping. Too bad they couldn't introduce some personality. Nice.

























Opposite Berlaymont sits Charlemagne...







Robert Schuman, promoter of the European Union, with bird shit.




Contrast: Belgium's imperial glory...


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