1) I went to visit the parliamentarium, which is the European Parliament’s Visitors’ Centre, in a bid to learn more about EU politics. I expected it to be quite boring, but by the end I was really interested. The EU has 28 member states and 24 official languages. After going through airport style security to … More Musings from a multi-lingual milieu #5

1) After a month in Belgium I finally tried Moules-Frites. They were definitely worth waiting for. Yum yum! 2) They do one kiss when they greet each other in Belgium. No actually, sometimes they do two. Or maybe it’s the French people in Belgium who do two. But no it can’t be because some of … More Musings from a multi-lingual milieu #4

1) They drive on the other side of the road. This should be ingrained in my brain by now but I spent 20 minutes waiting on the wrong side of the road the other day while watching 2 buses pass on the other side before realising I should have been on one of them. 2) … More And then the sun came out