by Hu Xiangyu, January 10, 2011
Brussels, this is Brussels! Light is flowing like waves, streets are narrow but delicate, and most of her people are thin and tall. For a photograph buff like me, it's so wonderful a place to take photos and be taken photos - the color of clouds in the blue sky is so clear and soft, the weather is wet and comfortable and the grasses are still green and fresh. This tiny city is like delicious food just taken out from the fridge - cool and chic. The lovely artists do whatever they want to attract people's attentions, free and unique. However, they are expensive at the same time: either taking photos of him or with him, we shall pay at least ?2.
The author poses next to a street artist during her tour in Brussels, January 10, 2011. [Photo by Hu Xiangyu]
This city is not so different from any big cities of China than I have thought, for the streets are just like those in Beijing or Shanghai at any time, and the shops are just as same as ours. But it has so many old buildings having standed there for hundreds of years, quite impossible for any big city in China, and I am so amazed about its perfect combination of modernity and history.
(Hu Xiangyu, student from Nanjing Normal University, is one of China's visiting youth representatives to Brussels to attend a series of launch events of the 2011 EU-China Year of Youth, which opens in the capital city of Belgium on January 11, 2011.)
