This instruction manual is by the same author who also wrote the one for Amsterdam. This one I liked even less than the Amsterdam one. It mostly covered history and food and of course the European Union. It really didn't give me a feel for the place at all. I thought it didn't contain much insight and I particularly recall a sentence I thought was just a cheap shot. The author claimed that the good food and the many restaurants are a reason that so many Belgians are overweight. There was no data to substantiate this claim and it seemed mostly random and worthless. ( )