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stoemp avec saucisse 2008-05-27 04:57:37 Stoemp avec saucisse or in English Stoemp with sausages is a Traditional Belgian dish made of mashed potato mixed with vegetables (the Stoemp portion) and served in this case with Belgian sausages. Quite a few different variations exist as it could be served with many kids of meat: Chicken, Duck, Rabbit, Carbonnade, steak, Pork cutlet [...]
Brussels Jazz Marathon 2008 2008-05-26 12:30:28 The Brussels
Jazz Marathon
2008 just ended this week-end for its 13th consecutive edition. 125 concerts were spread out from Friday to Sunday through outdoor stages for the biggest venues and the remaining larger portion indoors of around 50 bars, pubs and cafés of Brussels. And best of All it’s once again 100% FREE… [...]
Cook & Book 2008-05-29 17:28:35 Cook & Book is an amazing new concept of nine very classy bookshops all grouped together where each runs its own specific theme. The novelty is that they are at the same time restaurants where one could come for a simple drink or enjoy a full meal while browsing for his favorite books. There are [...]
Le Roi des Belges 2008-06-04 02:01:59 Strategically located right in the trendy place Saint Géry Le Roi des Belges is a popular laid back atmosphere café with a nice terrace and some good background music. Calm during the daytime it gets quite busy and packed at night sometimes featuring a DJ. The menu offers a mix of good but simple [...]
Parc Malou 2008-06-09 12:33:09 The Parc Malou with its 20 acres is the largest park of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert but also the oldest. Amoung other things It features the Moulin Lindekemale (old mill), The Château Malou (Castle), A large playground for children, a fishermen’s pond, walks along the rivière Woluwe (Woluwe river) and sightings of wildlife such as ducks and [...]
Colonial Belgian Architecture 2008-06-18 09:24:09 A few places in the center of Brussels still have remnants it’s colonial times and display Art inspired by the vegetation and animal life of the once Belgian
Congo, The most recurrent theme is the banana.
As seen here on top of a building at 75 rue Antoine Dansaert
The building was erected in 1927 for Gerard [...] Read more:Architecture
Mappa Mundo 2008-06-17 14:36:00 In the trendy Halles St.Géry area the Mappa Mundo café is a popular hang with a cosmopolitan crowd set inside a cozy and warm extravagant decor. The terrace is always packed with people in the summertime. Though it features a good selection of beers the Cocktails menu is quite limited but the excellent Caipirinhas, Strawberry [...]
War Pigeons commemorative statue 2008-06-24 13:17:25 Belgium is most likely the only country in the world to possess a statute to honor the “pigeon soldat” or soldier pigeon and his contribution during both Great World wars.
Whether released at 500 m or 100 km from home, even in certain cases over 1,500 km, the messenger pigeon has that fantastic ability to always [...] Read more:Pigeons
Mini Europe 2008-06-19 07:35:07 The theme park of Mini-Europe
is one of outstanding quality where all the countries in the European Union are represented here in 1:25 scale models of buildings of socio-cultural, historic and symbolic interest.
The 6 acre wide park includes the Acropolis of Athens, Danish houses from the days of the Vikings, Leuven town hall, the austere [...]
Cohn Donnay House 2008-07-07 09:03:03 The originally neoclassical Cohn Donnay house built in 1841 was redone using the Art nouveau style in 1904 by architect Paul Hamesse. His remarkable changes to the façade were limited to the elegant bow-window and the balcony above it. Inside, he tastefully designed furniture which was perfectly integrated with the architecture. Entrance hall, billiard and [...] Read more:House
Ceramic art facade on 147 rue du Rempart des Moines 2008-07-06 06:51:21 An unusual looking refuge for people recovering from living on the streets that its exterior was neatly covered with handmade ceramic art up to the 1st floor.
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Photos of the house displaying the ceramic art facade
Some detail of the Ceramic
art that was made among other things: Carved tiles, patterns, portraits, seahorses, flowers, etc…
Recyclart 2008-07-05 08:07:09 The Recyclart is a non-profit urban pilot project with the vocation of turning the old abandoned train station of Chapelle-Kapellekerk and its abandoned neighborhoods into a vibrant multi-purpose cultural center proposing everything from concerts to exhibitions. The bands featured in the pictures were Comets of fire and Creature With The Atom Brain. The agenda of [...]
Bois de la Cambre 2008-07-04 16:05:09 Bois de la Cambre in French or Ter Kamerenbos in Dutch
In 1852 Napoleon III sold Bois de Boulogne, the woods on the western side of Paris, to the City of Paris. Eight years later, the Belgian government also desirous of providing its capital with a public park sold the 304 acres of the Bois de [...]
Drug Opera 2008-06-29 11:26:44 A rather large English style pub spread over three floor the Drug Opera bar and restaurant takes its name from an old pharmacy that used to occupy previously the same location. Place is rarely ever packed so it makes it a good spot for a drink or some quick food in a calm decor away [...]
View over Brussels from 10th floor of Parking 58 2008-06-26 11:04:50 You could pass by the shapeless building of the Parking
58 hundreds of times without even noticing it. Though the structure is uninteresting by itself it does have a surprise in store for those looking to get a free panoramic view from high up of the city of Brussels
. All you need to do is [...]
Brussels police demonstration Grand Place 2008-06-25 15:11:34 While I was passing by the GrandPlace
today I noticed a large crowd gathered and some sort of police demonstration that was going on and decide to take some photos of the event that was already well underway. It was in fact the annual “fastes de la police de Bruxelles Capitale” event that celebrates [...] Read more:Brussels
Chapelle de Marie la Miserable 2008-07-22 01:59:12 Chapel of Marie
la Miserable
This Gothic chapel, whose origins certainly date from the 14th century, was modified many times until its restoration in 1970. It evokes the moving story - told by the playwright M. de Ghelderode in his play Marie la Miserable (1952) - of a young peasant girl who became the victim of [...]
Greenwich café 2008-07-19 16:56:31 Built in 1914 the Greenwich
café is the well-known meeting point of Brussels chess players where at any time of day or night multiple groups of players abound inside. The original decor completed in 1916 gives the pub its pleasant and authentic feel, where probably little changed from the time Magritte apparently frequented the place. [...]
Botanique 2008-07-16 08:52:36 Le Botanique or the Former Botanical Garden
Since 1983, this complex hosts the Cultural Center of the French-speaking Community of Brussels and Wallonia. It was built in 1826-29 by T.-F Suys and P.-F. Gineste. The monumental structure is typical of XVIllth century orangeries: a central rotunda with a wing on each side, each ending on a [...]
Make your voice heard with la Pasionaria 2008-08-06 11:57:00 The loud-hailer La Pasionaria is the work of artist Emilio Lopez-Menchero. It was inaugurated on July 7, 2006 and is located at the beginning of the Avenue de Stalingrad.
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Photo of la Pasionaria byartist Emilio Lopez-Menchero
la Pasionaria is meant as a suggestion to spontaneous self expression
Abbaye de la Cambre 2008-08-05 14:47:49 The Abbaye of la Cambre’s attractive main courtyard, with its abbey lodgings flanked by corner pavilions and outbuildings arranged along a semicircular plan, forms a very harmonious 18C ensemble, born of the desire of the abbesses to recreate the atmosphere of their family châteaux. The community usually consisted of about 100 women, many from families [...]
Tramway arriving at station Lemonnier 2008-08-04 13:51:09 A Cable car also called tram car arriving at Lemonnier Stib station.
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The empty tracks lit by the artificial neon light help give the whole place a uncomfortable and eerie feeling.
After afew mins wait a cable car finally arrives from the Gare du Midi
The Final approach into STIB Lemonnier station [...]
Rue des Six-Jeunes-Hommes tavern sign 2008-08-03 06:00:29 The sign of a former tavern in this neighborhood, it perpetuates the memory of six young jokers seeking zwanzes (a Flemish word for pranks) under the harsh rule of the Spanish Duke of Alba. Examples of their efforts included replacing holy water in the churches with ink and attaching old ladies attending Mass to one [...]
Meyboom 2008 celebrations preview 2008-08-02 10:23:24 A repetition for the Meyboom Celebrations was held today at the Grand Place a week ahead of the official date of the 9th of August. This is the longest lasting folkloric tradition of the city of Brussels held yearly since 1213 and celebrating it’s 693rd edition. The celebration features a procession of eight colorful costumed [...]
Parc Leopold 2008-07-23 13:05:26 Parc Leopold
Park Leopold’s Main entrance on rue Belliard just beyond the Parliament buildings. Set on the edge of the new European Union infrastructures and following on from the Maelbeek Valley, which stretches from the woods at La Cambre and the lakes in Ixelles to square Marie-Louise, this public park is a haven of peace and [...]
La maison des chats 2008-09-13 04:34:19 La maison des chats
or what would be translated into English as The House of Cats is a Flemish Neo-Renaissance building that won a first prize at the facade Contest organized by the City between 1872 and 1876 in the context of laying out the new Center boulevards. Designed according to the project of H. [...]
Fountain at the Belgian Senate 2008-09-06 12:22:02 Fountain found just outside the BelgianSenate
(Sénat Belge) in Brussels where visitors enter. Haven’t found any further information about the fountain itself. If anyone has an idea please leave a comment.
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Photos of fountain found at the Belgian Senate Read more:Fountain
Parc d’Egmont 2008-09-03 10:58:19 Le Parc d’Egmont (The Egmont Park) is composed of the formed-gardens of the Egmont palace which were modified several times between the XVI century and 1902, dates on which architect Galoppin laid it out as it is now. This park forms a pleasant little oasis of peace and tranquility in the heart of a very [...]
Le Jeune Albert 2008-09-02 15:40:15 Le Jeune Albert
or De Jonge Albert in Dutch is the main character taken from the comic strip of the same name created by Yves Charland. Its the story of a kid living is post World War II Brussels who loves to play practicle jokes and makes life horrible for those around him. Compared to [...]
Cityscape wooded sculpture by Arne Quinze 2008-08-31 12:38:09 Created for the duration of two years the Quartier Louise was enlightened by this vast 40 meters by 25 meters wooden sculpture
created Arne Quinze. its opening periods are from 14 September 2007 until Monday 14 September 2009.
Speaking about the sculpture Arne Quinze goes on to say:
CITYSCAPE resembles a frozen movement; speed caught in time. [...] Read more:Cityscape
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