A year in the natural world in our home village; lovely.

The awful story of the Brussels-Amsterdam high speed trains.

...and so few in Belgium?

Our voting machines don't work properly.

I got interviewed by one of the Brussels free papers recently.

Hooray!

Wonderful immigration policies which penalise the innocent traveller and encourage criminality.

On iOS and iPhone, waiting for the Android version...

Doe the Zeitgeist favour separatism?

Who to vote for in the 14 October local elections? (I don't understand most of the issues unfortunately.)

With extra guest appearance by @astroehlein !

Espionage in Brussels (full detail).

Espionage in Brussels.

Children in Brussels.

I come out 51%/49% - balanced or confused, rather than separatist or unionist!

Hooray! Brussels was most congested city 2011, now overtaken by Warsaw, Rome, Marseilles!

Our mayor is seeking a seventh *six-year* term.

A peculiar bit of literary history.

A documentary about bike messengers in Brussels, the most congested city in Europe with only 4% cycling traffic.

The Belgian political sexual harassment scandal. (In Dutch.)

Andy Carling: "Brussels calls itself the Capital of Europe and acts like an obscure hamlet."

Heartrending. #fb

Text, facsimile, translation, Gillian Anderson podcast (seriously!)

French homework found in Charleroi

Am worried by the Telegraph's choice. (from June 2010)

Actually also includes the Tintin museum in Louvain-la-Neuve (good call, IMO).

On Belgian beers: "1,131 at the last count. Apart from six Trappist ales and other abbey beers, it churns out lagers such as Stella Artois and its stablemate Jupiler, the more popular brew in Belgium. Tipplers can also choose from an array of wheat beers, brown ales, red beers from West Flanders, golden ales, saison beers based on old farmhou…

Series of events coming up locally.

More on the G1000. An excellent idea.