If this is Friday, it must be Belgium
As many of you know, the famous partner unit and I (above) have decamped for Belgium and France. We spent today in Brussels, at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts - site of Auden's famous poem "Musée des Beaux Arts," and the two wonderful Brueghels that inspired it - as well as the Musical Instruments Museum (pictured). Tomorrow we're off to Bruges, and the only statue by Michelangelo to leave Italy in his lifetime …