trip to the balls of Brussels
Last monday, my office offered me and my colleagues a trip to the Atomium in Brussels. It was a nice trip: this building has an eternal coolness, while it's wrapped in fifties nostalgia. All by all: you should see this piece of art.
But that's where it gets interesting for us: this building has a copyright, ie. when i publish a picture of this copy of an Iron crystal on my website i should pay the Belgian collecting society Sabam (no panic, the picture on my blog is not a picture or copy, it's just a link pointing to the server of the Atomium). So, if i want to publish a picture that i took of this building, constructed and built by tax money, i have to pay royalties to the family of the architect (+ 70 years after his death in 2005) ... Now, that is when i start to think this should be called corruption :-(
Well, the guys at indymedia.be have found a solution to this problem :-D (article in Dutch, picture in universal).
- embe's blog
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I like that it is a mini Eiffel Tower. You go up to the top in an elevator and you look out the window and that's about it! Well there's the trip back down. I may have missed it, but I thought read that you take an escalator down. You do, but just midway. You then have to climb several flights of stairs up to the center where you can have wonderful waffles and other sandwiches and snacks, then go down a few other flights of stairs. We had elderly people with us who were basically stuck having to walk the stairs in order to get out of the place. This was not good!
Ioana, Car Rental blogger