Our Trip to Brussels in 2016

On 22 March 2016, two coordinated terrorist attacks in and close to Brussels, Belgium, were carried out by the Islamic State (IS). Two suicide bombers detonated bombs at Brussels Airport in Zaventem just outside Brussels, and one detonated a bomb on a train leaving Maelbeek/Maelbeek metro station in the European Quarter of Brussels. Thirty-two people were killed and more than 300 were injured. Three perpetrators also died. A third airport attacker fled the scene without detonating his bomb, which was later found in a search of the airport. A second metro attacker also fled, taking his bomb with him. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks. (Wikipedia)

As this post says, I phoned the travel agent about the holiday we’ve booked next month in Brussels. I said it didn’t feel like fun any more, could we cancel? Certainly, she said, but we can’t give you any refund, as it’s less than three weeks away. So I said there’s no point in cancelling, we’ll just leave it open.

As a commenter said “I would think most people (outside of a customer service environment) would understand that a desire to cancel implied a desire for a refund.” So we took the alleged risk and everything was normal except of course the stations which had been bombed, and they were refitted in a few days.

The only photo I showed in my post was of the Atomium, only structure remaining from the Brussels World Fair in 1958, which I visited aged 16.