So, I’ve just read this book (yes, I occasionally do something other than eat and bitch, shut up) and I want to tell you about it. It’s a thriller set in the sleepy, prosperous expat-filled suburbs of Brussels. 17-year-old Veerle is stiflingly bored and sick of looking after her clingy, needy mother when … Continue reading »
Spring has sprung in the hairdressers. These rabbits are especially stoked about it. Continue reading »
Bia Mara – much beloved Irish chippie with sustainable fish – in Metropolitan this month. They’re now open 7 days a week! Bia Mara, Rue du Marché aux Poulets 41 Continue reading »
OH HAI neglected Belgian blog. I have so much to tell you but I have been horribly, unusually busy. I haven’t even had time to sit around watching my favourite owl webcam. Tsk. Anyway, one of the things I was busy doing was writing a review of a place Metropolitan has ALREADY reviewed, before my … Continue reading »
I love Midi market, loud and busy and joyful and gloriously cheap. It reminds me a tiny bit of Brick Lane on a Sunday. Here’s what I bought today, quite restrained: Four mangoes for €2, a giant lump of ginger for €0,60, all those green chilies for €1 and the coriander for €0,25. There was breakfast too, … Continue reading »
Neptune in Metropolitan (the last sentence is missing from the English version, sigh). Love this place. As a bonus you get a hideous picture of me looking like a hamster and talking about female run restos. I nearly had a nervous breakdown trying to find a picture for that. I mean, you’ve seen my pictures. I’m … Continue reading »
Because, as you know, I am totally down with the kids (actually, right now on my fourth day of enforced solitary confinement with my youngest and Mario 3D Land, I am more down on the kids, but we’ll let it pass for now), I have been to test the new food truck, Keep on Toasting. Yes. … Continue reading »
