Today is a public holiday in Belgium, for All Saints Day. It’s also a significant day for us because it’s the single day between Rasmus’ old word contract and the new. Yesterday he had a Belgian contract, a Belgian phone number, a Belgian car. Tomorrow he’ll have a Luxumbourgish contract, phone, (rental) car… This whole…
I went to two concerts this week which was fun. The first was to see KT Tunstall who has been one of my favourites for a long longtime. I just bought her newest album about a month ago and already love it. And she’s a great performer – clearly having a lot of fun but…
Yesterday the STIB (metro, bus, tram company) went on strike for the second time in two weeks. I’m not sure what they were striking about this time because not speaking good (read: any) French or Flemish I never read the local news. I was late to work in the morning anyway because I needed to…
After my last post when I started to panic about how much I haven’t crossed off my list of 26 things yet (maybe you missed that – it might have come right after I pressed “publish” 🙂 life decided to be super nice to be me and give me a hand with the list. I…
Yes, that’s a mouthful of a post title. Let me explain. Thursday was Marissa’s birthday. Marissa is one of my bestest friends. We have grill-outs on her terrace, she keeps a stock of kriek for me in her fridge, she has an infectious laugh and she forgives me for not liking orange, her favourite colour….
This is the weekend of the annual Brussels Beer Festival, when just under thirty breweries descend on the Grand Place to enable all the tourists to get drunk just a little bit faster… 🙂 We went out at lunch to take a look and came across the parade of brewery carts with their beautiful big…