May 18, 2025

Anticyclone des Açores Brussels

Dream travel bookshop

""Anticyclone des Acores" in Brussels is one of my favorite shops - and it's so because it's a travel bookshop! Maps, travel guides... Time to dream!"

Saturdays are the only days I can go shopping when I am in Brussels, as my working hours are long. Where do I go?? Clothes shopping? Furniture shopping? Food shopping? Not at all! As the avid traveller I am, it's a travel bookshop where I spend hours and hours. Anticylone des Açores is my all-time favourite place in Brussels to do so. I like its old building, the friendly welcome of the workers but above all that everything you find there is travel-related.

You find guidebooks from all over, you find the good old maps which I love so much, you find travel books, you find globes and all you can think which can help you guide your next trip.

Sometimes I pass by there just to get inspiration for future travels or to discover some tips about the destination of my next weekend away (for those places not featured in Spotted By Locals, of course!).

Come on, it's time to dream!

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