Tag: Flemish

  • The Sorrow of Belgium

    The Sorrow of Belgium

    The best thing about summer temperatures is that they are generally followed by thunderstorms. And that’s exactly my favourite kind of weather. As much as Belgians fear temperatures above 25 degrees, they also fear thunderstorms. The country even gets ‘codes’ when there might be thunderstorms coming. Code yellow, code orange, code red… depending on how…

  • B.N.D.

    It took me a while to realize that B.N.D. stands for ‘Belgian National Day’. Obviously this post comes with a bit of a delay, as the Belgian national holiday is on July 21. Maybe you already know that my country of origin, Belgium, is quite a complicated one. As a matter of fact I am…