I was intrigued when I first saw this poster. Then kinda disappointed.
Entries Tagged as ‘Belgium’
March 25, 2007
The Great Pacifier Mystery (5)
And the last episode. A chance to practice your French. Look out for the sheep. Priceless.
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March 21, 2007
The Great Pacifier Mystery (3)
Ted looks to the renaissance science of perspective for an answer.
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March 18, 2007
The Giant Pacifier Mystery (2)
For all those crazy to find the next episode of Ted’s inquiry, and unable to negotiate a youtube search (you know who you are), here it is.
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March 16, 2007
The Giant Pacifier Mystery
With elections approaching, there’s much debate about immigration and integration here in Belgium. Whether it’s poor (African, Turkish) immigrants or rich (western) expats, the Flemish nationalist Vlaams Belang party don’t like us foreigners much.
But here’s a cool example of the fusion of the expat/immigrants with off-the-wall Belgian creativity. This is Ted Fletcher shedding light on the great mysteries of our time. [...]
March 14, 2007
Belgian Seaside
I love the seaside but in the 12 years living here I’d only been to the Belgian coast on a couple of day trips. I didn’t know what I’d been missing until we went for a week – in February.
I spent childhood family holidays at various seaside resoorts around England and Wales but since then [...]
March 2, 2007
Sperm Surge in Belgium
Flemish men are much more potent now than they were 15 years ago, according to the latest scientific study. The dramatic improvement started in 1995 – the same year that I arrived in Belgium. However, no statistically significant correlation has been established between these two facts.
On 22 February flandersnews.be reported encouraging new research under the [...]
January 14, 2007
Public Smoking Ban
Seven weeks into giving up the fags and I’m finally ready to risk going to a pub again. After all, from 1 January 2007, smoking is banned in all public places in Belgium right? Oh, I see. All public places where people don’t mind not lighting up.
September 16, 2005
Cheap as Chips?
Oh dear. First it was beer price rises, now a poor potato harvest sends the price of chips soaring. What greater calamity can afflict the Belgian working man? I suppose they’ll be putting up the price of fags next. Oh. Right.
This year’s potato harvest is set to be 10-15% below normal. Potato crops will be [...]
