We go to Belgium for the weekend. It's nearly Christmas and everyone says the markets are amazing. That Mika is playing a concert just happens to provide extra incentive.

We visit the Magritte Museum and go to the Delirium bar, across the street you can smoke absinthe. The museums are beautiful and the city compact and walker friendly.

At one point, near a museum, a dog watches us with human eyes, a church's interior decorations consist of questionable flames.

The people are friendly and the three days past quickly.

There is no choice: no art without life.

René Magritte