This is a short story about why I was grouchy this week. It has a happy ending.
This Tuesday, I took my first hot shower in my apartment in a week. That’s the reason I was grouchy – ice cold showers, no matter how quick, are not fun.
It all started last Tuesday, when our [...]

Belgian restaurants are quiet the experience – they’re quiet, intimate, and very classy. But Cook & Book in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert is a little different – it’s a bookstore with 9 restaurants in it…each with a different theme matching the books sold in that area.
The rooms are decorated to the nines – the travel room has an airstream [...]

Woo hoo!  Yesterday, I got my Belgian Driver’s License.  It was very easy – but kind of anti-climatic.  There’s nothing new that I can do with it…we still don’t have a car.  And in fact, I’d guess that the majority of my American expat friends just drive on their US license here without any problems.

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One of our goals this year is to get to know Brussels better.  We’re so busy traveling everywhere else, we forget to check out our own city. This last weekend, Thomas and I woke up to find more fluffy, white stuff outside, and thought it would be a great day to head downtown to take [...]

Happy New Year!  Thomas and I completed our first year in Belgium – Belgium style, by eating mussels, frites, and waffles.  We headed downtown to Place de l’Albertine for more celebrations.  They were showing videos of the Berlin Wall on the side of the Royal Library in honor of the The Fall, 20 years ago.  [...]