This week has really had its highs and lows. One of the biggest downsides to life as an expat is it seems you are always saying good-bye. In the past month we’ve had to say good-bye to two couples. First, our Indian friends and yesterday it was the Canadians. I’ve spent a lot of time with ‘The Bee’ over...
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Mar 28, 2008 • Comments Closed Sorry I fell off the blogging wagon this week. It was kind of a blah week for me. That said the concert last Friday was even better than I hoped. Once again we had rather crap seats which we traded at the last second for rather good seats. When we first sat down we could...
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Mar 21, 2008 • Comments Closed This is my favorite track from Anouk’s new album preformed live. As you can tell from the video, the crowd loves it too. The message is so relevant and Anouk really rocks it as always. (Warning: there is some “language” in this song so you may not want to play it around small ears).
Well, it took its sweet old Belgian time, but we finally signed the rental contract on our new place. There are a lot of mixed emotions floating around right now. Of course, primarily there is excitement. In my head I’m already unpacking and decorating and doing all kinds of city-girl things like going to the market and popping out...
A pavilion of beer crates is being built in the Heizel area of Brussels, near the Atomium. Belgian beer brewery Jupiler is sponsoring this unusual construction and event. The beer crate pavilion, showing the historic film ‘Expo 58′, can be visited from 17 April. From Flanders News
When I enrolled in French immersion in Junior High school, I never could have predicted that I’d be using skills learned then to translate rental contracts in Brussels at age 31. (For that matter when I took journalism in university I never expected to be writing articles about living in Belgium either.) The past month or so though, I’ve learned...
As promised… Andrew has new glasses too. Unfortunately he didn’t shave this weekend and had a very hairy chin…
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Mar 7, 2008 • Comments Closed First it happened in Grand Central Station… Then it hit Centraal Station/Gare Central in Brussels… What would you do…?
