It’s been a sports-filled Summer in Belgium this year. It’s hard to ignore the World Cup everywhere, and this last weekend, the Tour de France passed through Brussels. On Sunday, Thomas and I went down to the Atomium to watch the racers near the finish line after riding in from Rotterdam in The Netherlands. We [...]
Wow, you guys had some great ideas on meat-free recipes. I will have to try a few and post an update. Thanks! The weather this past weekend was very un-Belgian and gorgeous. We had bright sunny skies and temperatures around 21C (70F, that’s hot for Brussels!). Thomas and I packed a picnic lunch and headed [...]
I promise this isn’t going to become a baby-only blog, but I haven’t been up to too much else recently. I’m finishing up my first trimester and am glad to report that I never got sick (from the pregnancy – I seemed to pick up colds rather easily). But with allergies from all the flowering [...]
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 [...]
