I don’t think I have been in a country where there is so much happening all the time. If it isn’t a music festival, brocante, city market; yes ...

Not far away from Millennium Golf club in Paal you can find the restaurant Brasserie Paal 26 next to the motorway exit. The restaurant is one of tw...

I went to visit my friend Marc in Mechelen because we wanted to eat at Het Anker where they serve the fantastic carolus beer. I went to his house a...

In the centre of Brussels; on one the side of Place Monnais and next to the opera you can find Café de L’Opéra. The bar has both indoor and out...

Every Friday during the summer periode you can join the Roller Parade in Bruxelles. It is a 3 hours ride around Bruxelles on roller blades. I guess...

Every second year there is a flower carpet established at the Grand Place in Bruxelles. I missed it last time but this year I managed to ...

One of my favourite bars in Brussels in the Gecko cocktail bar situated at Place Saint-Gery 16, which is not far from the Beurs. This bar was o...

15 km from Brussels I was having a BBQ at a place called ‘T Krekelhof. The restaurant was very large and could easily host up to 300 persons whic...

The hotel is a 3 star hotel situated 100 meter from the beach of Oostende. It was a hotel that had been built as pure speculation; there was not on...

Almost next door to where I live I have walked by the Indian restaurant of Palais des Indes. From outside this looks like everything you imagine fr...

Very close to my work there is a great Italian restaurant; Ricotta & Parmesan. It is one of the oldest armouries of the capital, which was converte...

On Avenu Anspach you can find the Le Food Factory which is the same concept as The Cheesecake which I earlier have written about. Le Food Factory i...

If you are in the need for fast take away sushi of good quality you can visit the Sushi Factory on Avenu Louise. It is often possible to park just ...

I had the fortune of having lunch with some colleagues from work today at a restaurant called Babeko, which was situated at Place St. Catherine ver...

In the Cleydael golf club which has a fabulous club house they have a very cosy restaurant called Taffel 19. The interior is held in a very clean s...

Just on the flipside of Place Brouckere towards the old fish market you can find a restaurant called Le Greco Romain, which I have visited a couple...

Sometimes it is very strange how you end up in a terrific restaurant but I think that this one was one of the more peculiar. On our way to Dove...

Arriving at Calais and seeing all the roads that leads to the ferries towards England is like entering a dish of spaghetti straight with your head....

 

After walking the streets of Lier I felt for something light for lunch. I was arriving at Grote Markt and I was walking along the different restaur...

I had never heard about Lier until last week when I was in the Begijnhof in Mechelen visiting my friend who was serving beer in their yearly artist...

Besides being a fantastic Sunday with great weather it was the day of the market in Ixelles.  The police had been out since Monday setting up ...

I have now had the fortune to visit this fabulous restaurant a couple of times and every time it has been a pure pleasure. The restaurant is mainly...

Situated not far from Place Chatelain you can find this very nice little restaurant specialized in Spanish, Mediterranean, Tapas food. The restaura...

Who could imagine that you could find a really good restaurant in the most touristic area of Brussels – yes even on the town square? If you are i...

Situated on the everlasting building site of Place Flagey you can find one of the most popular bars in Brussels. Café Belga is a must for students...

If you are walking the streets of Brussels and you get a sudden urge for Tapas at an affordable price, you could visit LE BAR A TAPAS that is locat...

Going to the village Brocante or street market in Bassilly was an impuls. My friend and I was the day before having a BBQ on my balcony when he sai...

Kortrijk lies in the Belgian Province of West Flanders, on the river Leie. Kortrijk dates from Roman times, when it was called Cortoriacum. The cit...

Restaurant Cesar is situated on the Grote Markt in Kortrijk. The restaurant is a nice and clean in style. We chose it because of its nice white cha...

Ypres was one of the most important cloth producing and cloth trading cities of the county of Flanders in the high Middle-Ages. Bruges is known all...

When I entered Genk the first thing that struck me was that this must be a very young city compared to a lot of the other cities I had visited. The...

One of my favourite bars in my home area is the bar Le Chatelain situated at Place Chatelain. The bar or bistro is an enormously cosy place. It is ...

Just next to the Canals in Ghent you can find a great bar, called; Waterhuis aan de Bierkant. It has one of the finest terraces in Ghent and it st...

One of the main attractions of the many in Gent is the Castle of the Counts or GRAVENSTEEN in Dutch. The counts of Flanders had castles built in ...

Gent is to me one of the best cities in Belgium and therefore I keep on coming back.   Ghent (in Dutch: Gent) is the fourth largest city ...

Mechelen is a Dutch-speaking city and municipality in the province of Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium. The municipality comprises the city of Mechelen p...

Well the day had to come when I had to visit yet another football stadium in Belgium. I had the fortune to be invited to watch a game with KV Meche...

I was walking together with some friends of mine around in the centre of Brussels looking for a restaurant without any reservation on a Friday nigh...

If you are looking for an Irish pub where the atmosphere is great and you can mingle with open hearted people I recommend that you visit the Michae...

It is not a mission but living close to Place Chatelain gives you the possibility to frequently go out and eat. It also the Belgian way of living, ...

Sunday marked at Gare Medi is something special in Brussels. It is a market for people who live in Brussels. I don’t think that there are too man...

The city of Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish-Brabant, and perhaps best known throughout the world for its magnificent architecture,...

I had the fortune to be invited to football in Gent. It was my second game in Belgium and also this time it was a semi final of the Belgian Cup. Th...

After having visited Rochefort I decided to drive to Jemelle which was only 3 kilometres further down the road. I guess the only reason for visitin...

When I arrived to Rochefort it had stated to rain and like every other city it was not showing its full beauty under these conditions. Rochefor...

On my way to Rochefort another beer city I passed through Havrenne which was a very small village with an enormous town square. Nothing happened he...

This Sunday I decided that I wanted to visit more of the area around Namur going beyond the city. When I left it was pretty dull weather in Brussel...

I arrived in the very quiet city of Ciney which I had not been to before. Ciney is a small town in the middle of Condoz region. It is not really ...

On the wall outside the village church there was a metal plaque telling the story of Milo Huempfner, a soldier who served as a private in the 551...

I didn’t know Rocroi and I had never heard about it. It turned out that Rocroi was an ancient fortress town, Ardennes département, Champagn...

Driving along the Meuse is wonderful. The river is not crowded with house and the villages are scarce. Sometimes I was making a short cut of the lo...

Situated in the wonderful square of Rue Saint Boniface you find many different great restaurants - one of them being the Le 2éme Element. The reta...

The next stop on my trip was the village of Vaucottes situated a couple of km further down the road. The city is mostly known for its surf. This is...

I was talking to one of my colleagues about taking a daytrip to the coast of Normandy. I had been there some times but I had still a lot of place...

Vattetot-sur-Mer is a very small village on the coastal route from Etretat to Fecamp. The route is also a wonderful bicycle if you are in these reg...

The city of Yport was another stop on my route along the coast. The village Halfway between Etretat and Fecamp is a bit larger than the others but ...

The next stop was Fecamp; just over halfway from Dieppe to Le Havre, this city is a serious fishing port with an attractive seafront promenade and ...

When I started my trip in Belgium today I had actually no goal. I just wanted to get out of a rainy Brussels, and I had an idea that I should go so...

One my drive around in Belgium I found yet another little nice city Wépion. The city is located only 8 km south of Namur along the Meuse. The dr...

Next stop today was the city of Dinant which I had decided to be the goal of my trip until I changed my mind. The commune of Dinant has today apr...

Turning point for my road trip today was the little French city of Givet. Givet is a town and commune in the Ardennes département of France just o...

Along the lakes of Ixelles you will find a very relaxing area of Brussels. This area can be described as a residential neighbourhood and is to be f...

Not very far from the amazing Gross Markt or Grand Place in Brussels you can find this nice restaurant. It is situated in one of these traditio...

Please be honest to yourself, if you are a person who loves chocolate - would you drive 8,5 km outside of Brussels if you could make a bargain on C...

This Sunday my son and I wanted to take another Belgian city into a close look. The choise fell on Tournai a city I had briefly visited before bu...

I keep coming back to Gent, I must say that so far it is one of the most wonderful cities in this country of so many of them. No other cities in Be...

I had the good fortune to dine in a great restaurant where they serve very traditional Belgian and fantastic food. Viva M'Boma - meaning ‘vive la...

On the Fish Market in Brussels you can find a lot of restaurant but one of the better ones are the "Bij den Boer " which is a specialized fish rest...

Kaija’s sister had only one day in Brussels when she visited us and she wanted to see as much as possible in this day. Unfortunately it was somew...

I went in to this place in order to get a lunch with my girlfriend and her sister. The restaurant has a great location just off St. Germain, very c...

Kaija’s sister came down for a very quick visit here in Brussels and we wanted to make the most it being her first visit in this area of Europe. ...

Situated in a house from 1878 la Brasserie Vagenende welcomes you in the most charming way. The interior is from 1904 and is cosy, full of bras and...

This is one of the things that you just have to do, and some times again and again. I had been there before a couple of times but I still like to g...

Zot is today the only beer that is actually brewed and lagered inside of the city walls of Brugge (Bruges), the fierce medieval town in Flanders, t...

Brugge is a very nice small city situated only 100 km from Brussels. The city is as many others known as the Venice of the North, Brugge is one of ...

Restaurant “O Peres au Quai” is situated a long the canal not far from the city centre of Tournai. The restaurant is consetrating on grilled fo...

Sunday my friend Christian and I decided that it was time to go for a walk down to Marollen which is one of my favourite places in Brussels on a Su...

Very close to Place Chatelain in the Chatelain-Bailli area of Ixelles where I am so fotunate to live there is this sweet little thaï restaurant na...

Today I visited one the other outlets in the surrounding of Brussels - if you by that can accept that it will take you around one hour to get there...

I had been walking by this restaurant many times because there almost always have been a long queue outside. When I looked inside, one of the first...

Dunkerque is a small very town in the northernmost tip of France. It is very close to the border with Belgium and is actually located on the shores...

I had only heard possitive about Lille and it should be a town to be enjoyed. Lille is the 10th largest city in France with its 220.000 inhabitants...

I had the fortune to have dinner with one of my friends at restaurant Le Fellini situated on Place du Chatelain. The restaurant is situated in the ...

Grand-Place also known in Dutch as Grote Markt is a square in Brussels.  Grote Markt is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Belgium, the...

In Roermond you will find one of the nearest outlet to Brussels which is of a mayor magnitude, another one is situated in Roubaix 44 mail de Lannoy...

When I stayed in Ieper I went to Ieper Open Golf. It was not for playing but just to hit some balls at the driving range. The golfcourse is a small...

Today I went for a walk in my neighbourhood. Living just next to Loizelaan or Avenu Louise is a luxury in a town like Brussels because I am close t...

Dona Flor is a Brazilian restaurant in Ixelles in Brussel. It is a very cosy restaurant with nice waiters but also with exotic atmosphere. In the b...

Close to my work at Place de Brouckere 8 - 10 in the centre of Brussels there is a good and fast cafe that is very used for lunch. The café have n...

No other city in Belgium has so many listed building as Gent. The whole inner city should be declared an area of outstanding natural beauty. M...

When I walked the streets of Gent together with my son we stopped at the broodjes@hotspot for sandwich and salad. The café was situated perfectly ...

My girlfriend Kaija had never been to Luxembourg so we decided to drive down there. Luxembourg is not that far away from Brussels, it is only a two...

When in Brussels you ever get the urge for some fantastic Tartes or Quiches dont waste too much time - you should do as many of the restarants also...

Restaurant Monya is a nice Maroccan lunch and evening restaurant in the middle of Brussels. The interior is very Maroccan and many of the customers...

Today I went to Liége. Liége is situated 90 km east of Brussels. The city i fairly large and the second largest  french speaking city in Bel...

I had the fortune to get invited to this very nice and tasty restaurant. When I entered it was like coming into someones apartment The fireplace wa...

The last 1½ year I have been living every week Monday to Friday in my aparthotel on Jozef II on Kunst Wet or Art Lois and it have been a nice time...

Yet another month have almost gone in this wonderful city. April and May has just been amazing seen from a Danish expat. The weather has been so mu...

The first time I arrived in Brussels many years ago I had the pleasure of running into Belgian beer for the first time. After walking around in the...

One of the things I do in Belgium during the week is to play golf with colleges or business friends at the Millennium Golf Club in Paal, Limbourg. ...

Almost every Friday every week I am ending up in Zeventem Brussels airport having run from a meeting and being stressed by the stunning and none mo...

In the beginning of May I had the fortune to be invited to Liege to see the second leg of the semifinal to the Belgian cup between Standard Liege a...

Yet again I was out having lunch with one of my collegues who lives in Brussels and besides living there he is in to the food as well. He adores th...

In Mechelen I have had the fortune to visit a very nice brewery called Het Anker. In the brewery you have a very good restaurant and there is also ...

Every Tuesday and Thursday evening I have the possibility to visit my favorit café where I can sit and read, listen to french music in a very rela...

I had the pleasure to visit a genuine Belgian restaurant and one of those I have to return to. This was the real heavy Belgian cooking wi...

It has happen in this last year that I in the evenings have taken my car for a drive around in the inner city. I did this a lot just after I a...

I resently had a need for accommodation near to Gent and in stead of using a hotel - one of my friends recommended this bed n' breakfast place and ...

If you are comming to Brussels and are looking for a good meal in some very fashionable surroundings you just have to visit Belga Queen. Belga Quee...

If you are in the historic centre of Brussels, walking arround in the area close to the Grand’ Place and you feel hungry, it is possible that...

Walking around in a dressed up Brussels, dressed up for Christmas is very nice. Especially in the area of the old fish market and Grand Place. At t...

One of the most visual points of Brussels is the Atomium - which is situated neer the Expo areal. The Atomium was rebuild last year after been stan...

I work in the Centre Monnaie - Muntcentrum which in the middle of town and very close to Grand Place. Centre Monnaie - Muntcentrum is situated at t...

In the city there are some must see's and one of them is the Atomium - that was built for the world fair in 1958 - and it was designed by...

This week I had to great luck visit a restaurant that had specialized in "Cuisine francaise de terroir" or the traditional french cuisine. The res...

Since March 2006 I have travelled back and forth to Brussels every Monday and Friday. I have come to really enjoy the city and the people in the mo...