Interesting, as always. I’ve just returned from an Interrail trip which included Brussel/Bruxelles on both the outward and inward legs of the journey. It’s always been a source of puzzlement to me that Bruxelles-Midi station is Brussel Zuid in Flemish.
The bit about Belgian sports that you don’t mention is of course cycling, in particular the amazing one-day spring events such as De Ronde van Vlaanderen. They mostly happen in Flanders and my impression, both from watching on Eurosport and from takes my cycling-mad son tells me, is that this is the true sporting passion of many Belgians, or at least many Flemish people.
I expect you have a response prepared to this: but in strict constitutional terms the capital of the present-day Flanders region is Brussel, and in historical context the principal city of the various manifestations of Flanders has invariably been regarded as Gent.
Interesting, as always. I’ve just returned from an Interrail trip which included Brussel/Bruxelles on both the outward and inward legs of the journey. It’s always been a source of puzzlement to me that Bruxelles-Midi station is Brussel Zuid in Flemish.
The bit about Belgian sports that you don’t mention is of course cycling, in particular the amazing one-day spring events such as De Ronde van Vlaanderen. They mostly happen in Flanders and my impression, both from watching on Eurosport and from takes my cycling-mad son tells me, is that this is the true sporting passion of many Belgians, or at least many Flemish people.
Yeah. Eddie Merckx and all that! I like cycling, so I should go for a bike trip myself.
You’d love it!
I expect you have a response prepared to this: but in strict constitutional terms the capital of the present-day Flanders region is Brussel, and in historical context the principal city of the various manifestations of Flanders has invariably been regarded as Gent.
Duly noted. I have no response to this, but I do thank you for the money. Stick around: A lot more Belgium to come. Both personally and creatively.
this was lovely. also, "a poet of boredom, otherwise known as a comedian" is a line that will stay with me i think. all the best
Would just like to put on record that gangbangs are not compulsory for over-40s women in Belgium.
Do get behind RWDM, though.