Showing posts with label Belgium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belgium. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2020

The godshuizen of Brugge "offer a vision of a person-centered environment for elderly living today."

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A short time back I posted about ways to help the elderly live without nursing homes and institutional settings.   Grow Old with Me Consider...
Monday, September 21, 2020

An exhibition themed around public urinals -- in Brussels, not New Albania.

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Among the innovations witnessed at Poperinge's triennial pop-up Beer and Hop Festival beer hall in 2014 was the notion of charging a one...
Friday, August 07, 2020

Go All the Way.

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Today's ride was for a short distance only, downtown to Pints&union, then walking the bikes up the city side of the rail embankme...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Ambiance Eyenga.

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This piece from mid-June explains one reason why  Black Lives Matter reaches all the way to Belgium -- a very solid reason, in fact: ...
Monday, May 11, 2020

CULTURAL BITS: Frans Masereel and Hugo Claus.

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Back in 2004 or thereabouts, NABC's founding brewer Michael Borchers produced a damn fine Belgian ale. Silent Oath The joy in Be...
Friday, February 08, 2019

PINTS & UNION PORTFOLIO: It’s still better dancing with the table beer than sleeping on the floor.

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A long time ago when I first visited Belgium harboring the crazy idea that I'd drink the country dry of traditional ale, there'd b...
Friday, December 07, 2018

"Belgium’s revamped Africa Museum is a magnificently bizarre hybrid."

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“Colonialism as a system of governance is now considered immoral, authoritarian, racist, based on military occupation and exploitation.” ...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

PINTS & UNION PORTFOLIO: Orval exemplifies true religion, Trappist (ale)-style.

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One of my goals for the bottle list at Pints&union is to have a hefty core of Belgian ales, and whenever possible, glassware to match...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

THE BEER BEAT: "Belgian bars put the boot into tourists who steal beer glasses."

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I'll keep this short. Indeed, one of the central glories of Belgian cafe culture is the presence of appropriate glassware in just a...
Monday, January 02, 2017

It's Street Art Belgium, though perhaps the concept is untranslatable into New Albanian.

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The project is called Street Art Belgium:  Making Belgium Beautiful One Piece at a Time , but if you speak neither Flemish nor French, I...
Friday, April 08, 2016

King Leopold and "The Horrors of Belgium's Congo."

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My affection for Belgium and the Belgians precludes overt flippancy, but it does not prevent an honest examination of King Leopold's leg...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Campaign Diary, Chapter 10: Greenway news leads to bicycling flashbacks.

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I'm the obsessive sort when I allow myself to be, and the past two years have been all about walking. However, today I got out the elder...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

8. Belgian Beercycling 2000: Belgian beercycling 2000: The final beercycle ride, and postscripts.

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It was the year 2000, the anticipated Euro currency conversion was around the corner but had yet to occur, and for a final day of rental bee...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

7. Belgian Beercycling 2000: Brugge and the DTs.

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Thursday was a rail transfer day, and the objective to be pursued after a tasty Hotel Palace buffet breakfast of bread, butter, jam, selecte...
Monday, September 22, 2014

6. Belgian Beercycling 2000: A pause for perspective before the tour concludes.

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Readers will have noticed by now that the serialized account of Belgian beercycling in the year 2000 is rather longer on beer than it is on ...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

5. Belgian Beercycling 2000: Poperinge and Cassel.

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The biking beer hunters had managed to survive the onslaught of the Danish invaders on the final evening in Tournai. Poperinge was next in l...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

4. Belgian Beercycling 2000: An evening at Cave a Biere, Danes included.

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As we rode our bikes down narrow Wallonian country lanes not far removed from the outskirts of Tournai and our base camp at the Hotel d’Alca...