24 hours in Brussels, the capital of Belgium

The administrative seat of the EU is also a fun, beautiful city of elegant restaurants, splendid architecture and museums, says Tony Clayton-Lea.

PEOPLE associate Brussels with being nominal capital of the EU. Diplomats and politicians equal eurocrat blandness?

There is, perhaps, a certain truth in this, but when business has been done and the short journey has been made from the sleek, steel and glass of the Euro headquarters to the city centre, Brussels can effortlessly transform into a multi-cultural melting pot of alluring and lived-in character.