Brown Motion

 Such a joyous title. But not quite a Tintin comic. A recent trip to the earliest of Euro bloc political alliances called Benelux was the reason to run into the above mentioned art. Benelux so named for the three countries that formed this union allowing free travel across their respective borders eventually merging with the EU and adopting a single currency circa 2000. The Thanksgiving break is a good time for wife and I to hit the proverbial road not traveled and has happened each year barring covid. With no family or tradition to hold us to our base camp coordinates we have found this time works for us with generally mild climes across the planet and less of a crowd. Or so it used to be. This time the crowds were out with a vengeance as witnessed by the clogged arteries of cities in the Benelux when we visited. So this Benelux is made of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. Belgium is bigger in size and curious sights; Netherlands is a sinking ship - quite literally half the country