Today we share the second part of our Living Abroad series interview with expat Suheyla Ilgaz, in which she talks about integrating and making friends in your new home.
While to the outside world, Belgium may look like a country that argues over language, inside the country, there is an even hotter debate – who serves the best Belgian waffles? Here at CheeseWeb, we don’t shy away from hard-hitting topics, so we wanted to weigh in on the great waffle debate. For us the...
In our last post we wrote about the ‘modern’ agora, or Central Market, in Athens, Greece. Today we are going way back in time, to the site of the Ancient Agora of Athens; an incredible place to walk in the footsteps of the ancient Greeks.
One of the best ways to explore a city’s culture is through its food, and one of the best places to experience the food culture as the locals do is at the city market. We love visiting food markets. On our recent visit to Greece, we discovered the bustling Athens Central Market, and got a...
Since our arrival in Brussels, Andrew and I have been searching for the perfect hamburger. In the early days, our quest went unfulfilled, but in the past few years the hamburger scene in Brussels has greatly improved. We’ve discovered a few locations with some darn fine burgers, but we still hadn’t found one we could...
While we often interview other expats who are doing interesting things in Belgium, today we speak with one of the locals who is doing interesting things for expats in Belgium. Marijke Verboven works for Vzw de Rand, helping expats to integrate into the Flemish community surrounding Brussels. She talks to us about her organisation, expat...
While hordes of tourists descend on Europe’s most popular cities from June to September, we prefer to take advantage of the benefits offered by travelling in the low-season.
Today we begin the first of our new Living Abroad video series by interviewing expat Suheyla Ilgaz.
