Brussels

We spent day two of our road trip in three countries: we woke in France near the Belgian border, spent the day in Brussels and then drove to The Hague in the evening to stay with Cameron.  In contrast to the amazing French roads, the Belgian roads were a nightmare, and the most common road signs we saw seemed to be ones telling us about the bad road surface.  It was also snowing and raining and foggy and loads of traffic, so none of the pleasure of the previous day's adventures.
We saw the sights of Brussels, though, and had a great time in the Parliamentarium, a museum-type information centre for the European Parliament.  Joe, who is fascinated by politics/history, was fascinated by it, especially the growth as new countries joined and loved the fact that the EU's biggest expansion had been during his lifetime. He thinks Turkey should definitely join, and is extremely concerned with the hole in the map left by Switzerland.  Even though he understands Switzerland doesn't want to join, he thinks they should anyway just so it doesn't look like any country is being excluded.