I’m guessing everybody in Brussels (or who has ever visited) knows this building – it’s bang opposite the entrance/exit to the Gare du Midi, right by the taxi stand/spot-where-you-smoke-your-last-cigarette-before-boarding (well, not me, not for the past 5 months anyway 
) … I’m not sure everybody thinks it’s as cool as I do though, so here’s my attempt to convince.
Cold evening on Place Flagey. The lights in the church looked welcoming but I’m really not trying to make any big statement here!
Happy new year! I hope it’s a good one (and that the Mayas had it wrong). Back in comfy Brussels after a really nice xmas – I may have to stop wine and food in 2012 though!
A selection of shots from the Lot et Garonne and Dordogne – everyone should visit (and when they do, stay at my parents B&B!). I also managed to catch up with François & Aurélie who were xmassing nearby… we picked a half way spot on the map and ended up in La Roche Chalais where the one restaurant will stuff you to the gills for 12 euros – what more could you ask for?
Corner of Rue de Flandre and Rue Léon Lepage
Second part of Marie Claire ‘shopping à BXL’ shoot… so lots of shops, pavement pounding and welcome discoveries which I’ll most probably mention in the coming days, weeks, months. The idea of the ‘shoppings’ is also to catch some of the city goings on/vibe so here’s one of those shots.
Very Brusselsy.
This is not a hugely original subject or a very good ‘spot’, these typical flemish style buildings below the Mont des Arts are virtually impossible to miss! I’m fond of them though, so there you go.
I make a typo almost every time I spell September (there, I did it again) so by the time this month is done and dusted, I’ll have effectively written September (again) around 70 times. Very much looking forward to October, also known (to me) as the month of pumpkins which is a very good thing… oh, and Sandra will be as old as me when it’s over, I always look forward to that. Hanging in St Gilles today… got lucky with the blue and gold cars.
Proof that there is occasionally a ray of sun in this city although I’m still convinced Autumn has been bypassed this year – this is the Notre Dame du Sablon church and has a couple of amazing stained glass windows – I’ve told a few people about this and they never find them, so just in case, they are in the back left corner, funky geometric patterns. It’s Friday and Risk night is back. Jeremie, Mireille and Undraa came over, made stir fry and battled it out with Angie for the longest game ever… I didn’t play because 5 people risk is just too boring (besides, I’m apparently ‘too competitive’ which makes it no fun… I think that’s just because I always win!). Henri has been crashing with us for the past 10 days and was ill so I mothered him and the cat instead.
