Mr Monkey went to the Gare Centrale, to take a train to the airport. The platforms are in rather grim tunnels, but the upper levels are quite bright and airy, for a station. Mr Monkey was taken with the depiction of St Michael over the main entrance. St Michaels abound in Brussels as he's the patron saint of the city*. Before catching his train, Mr Monkey saw the monument above the stairs and stopped to think about the railway workers who died in the two world wars.
* As well as being patron saint of ambulance drivers, Cornwall, grocers, hatters, Papua New Guinea, Springfield Massachusetts, storms at sea, and many other things and places.
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