Painting Provence
American artist Patricia Clendening Buzzerio had her artistic spirit awakened when she lived in Provence. By taking up a paintbrush she was influenced by her mother, who was a gifted artist in stained glass, and this is evident in her use of colour and light in her work.
She describes her style as “letting the sketch [...]
Google Searches The Boulevards Of Brussels
The search giant has just sent a fleet of red Opels out on the streets to photograph Brussels for its Street View part of Google Maps. This could have some interesting results and people are going to be poring over the results.
In the past photos on Street View have caught out cheating partners, people skiving [...]
A Freudian Slip
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?’” – Sigmund Freud Can our man help, maybe? Hmmm…
Well, I think it’s safe to say that women don’t really want a [...]
10 Reasons To Love Belgium
1. Because we have the best rain in the world.
Most countries measure rainfall by quantity, but Belgium’s precipitation can also offer a bewildering breadth of forms. From the merest hint of drizzle to the torrential downpours, nowhere beats Belgium for getting wet. It’s said in holy scriptures that Paradise is ‘a well watered garden’ and [...]
Off The Books
Due to its secretive nature and the unwillingness of participants to discuss it, facts and figures on the black economy tend to be estimates. It is certainly an opaque phenomenon, rather like the elusive dark matter that CERN is spending billions seeking. Together takes a look.
No-one knows for sure just how pervasive it is or [...]
Winged Warriors
Our writer checks out a leading Brussels American football team.
Many Europeans regard American football as being nothing but rugby with padding, and therefore a bit wimpy. In reality, football is one of the toughest sports in the world, in which large, strong men smash against each other while trying to move the ball down the [...]
Facebook and Frites unite Belgium
Camera in hand, Andy Carling attended the inaugural National Frites Day in Brussels.
Around a hundred people gathered recently in Brussels’ Place Reine Astrid to celebrate the inauguration of National Frite Day.
The event was organised through the social networking website, Facebook. The two men behind the event, Jamal Aynaou and Bao-Lan Nguyen-Phuoc, explained how it all [...]
