Greetings!

How to say hello in Ghana: “The course and temperature of the first greeting are of the utmost significance to the ultimate fate of a relationship, which is why people here set much store by the way they salute each other. It is essential to exhibit from the very beginning, from the very first second, [...]

Expo

I like to think that I live a rich and varied cultural life, although having to juggle a full time job and three children means that I can’t keep up with everything. In particular it’d been a while since I’d been to an exhibition. And yet in the past week I’ve been to two, rather [...]

The look

Disclaimer: I tried and tried to find all the clips I needed for this post on Youtube. I tried to rip them from my own DVDs but they were copy protected. Even grabbing stills from the DVDs seemed unnecessarily complicated. Hopefully you get the idea in most of the cases. If not, go and see [...]

Grimbergen giraffe

Some friends of ours who own a food shop and restaurant in Genoa arrived yesterday for a short visit to Brussels. We met them in the city centre and walked them around the main sights, stopping for a drink in Les Halles de St Géry. I perused the drinks menu and chose a “Grimbergen giraffe”. [...]

Via Lamanna

The multi-space restaurant/”concept store” Via Lamanna opened recently on Brussels’ chic Avenue Louise. Every time we drive past it seems bustling and attractive, so finally this week we got around to visiting. There are several “spaces”, including a shop, wine bar, lounge, and a “gastronomic restaurant”, which is where we’d booked our table. The first [...]