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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 8:42:13 AM   
Chloelicious


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Is that your way to talk about Belgian surrealism?


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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 8:43:30 AM   
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The Belgians are especially known for their ability on the cobblestones


If you want to have some laughs, go to wiki, scroll down and read the comments about the race.  The last comment is the best.

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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 8:44:08 AM   
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I used to live in the Netherlands.  I think Belgium is a lovely country.

I dont really have much of an opinion about whether the Flemish or the Walloons should have won the war, but I would exhort both sides to bury their dead and try to bring peace from the tragedy of war.

Enough people have died.

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I apologize for my surreal comments.

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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 8:46:18 AM   
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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 8:48:00 AM   
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Are you trying to make me cry? I tried so many beers... I love Chimay. And Kriek. And Hoegaarden, on a hot summer day. And Gueuze Bellevue. And Gueuze Lambic. And and and ...

Waaaa!


Trappist ale ROCKS!!

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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 8:48:55 AM   
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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 8:50:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm drooling. Chloe, it's your fault, your thread inspired some succulent memories in us. I demand a shipment of Belgium's finest beers instantly  .

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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 8:51:56 AM   
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ORIGINAL: KatyLied

quote:

The Belgians are especially known for their ability on the cobblestones


If you want to have some laughs, go to wiki, scroll down and read the comments about the race.  The last comment is the best.

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Oh, those are really funny! Thanks for the tip.

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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 8:52:15 AM   
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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 8:53:36 AM   
Chloelicious


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Well if you still in France I would be delighted to take you on a journey to Beer land. If you re elsewhere first give me your credit card number and i will ship them to you for free lol.


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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 8:54:02 AM   
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LOL,
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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 8:59:22 AM   
Jeffff


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Status: offline 		What makes me wonder is, no one ever talks much about them. There they are a small country. hiding in the middle of Europe. What are they up too?

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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 9:08:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		I love it and it has great beer. When I was younger I used to go to Antwerp regularly at weekends. Even had a lover there a couple of years ago. One of my favourite artists is Belgian, Marcel Broodthaers.  OK, Belgians are nuts but nice nuts. Any country that produces a singer like Jacques Brel, can't be all that bad.

Hey! I'd meet you for a drink.

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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 9:24:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		What I know about Belgium apart from what others have mentioned already;

The headquarters of Rubbermaid and a bunch of other companies in their group, are in Waterloo, where there is also a fascinating little museum about the 1815 showdown and the history of the town more generally.

Brussels airport is no place to spend 12 hours because your meeting with Rubbermaid finished early and you'd already explored Waterloo and been round the museum twice.

The architecture in Brugges centre is amazing, but there's this constant smell of drains.....

Belgium is actually quite a long country, though narrow. Driving from Dunkerque ferry port to Luxembourg took me 4-5 hours without a break. Driving from Dunkerque to the Dutch border between Antwerpen and Breda is about half the distance, and would take half the time if Antwerpen had any idea of how to build a road system.

The view from the motorway is very, very flat and boring until you get past Brussels' nightmare traffic system, (if youre lucky you can spot the Atomium thingy from the motorway), after which on the road to Namur and Luxembourg, you find the most absolutely wonderful scenery in the Ardennes.

The south of Belgium is full of French speaking people and appears post industrial (or did last time I was there); grimy and run down, a bit like our industrial areas mid 80s.

The west of Belgium may have far more cows and pigs than people, judging by the number of loads of milk products and meat we used to bring in from there. However the west of Belgium gets BBC TV programmes so everyone is fluent in English.

If you speak French, you might (might) just get by in most of Belgium. Forget any idea of speaking Flemish or understanding a word of it, even if you know Dutch. But everyone is pretty friendly anyway.

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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 9:50:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		I am from Belgian stock.  I feel confident is admitting to all of you that I am probably a long-lost Belgian Princess.  I'm certain my country mourns for me.  You may call me Wallonia,.

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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 10:01:06 AM   
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RE: what do you know about Belgium? - 2/21/2008 1:18:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		All I know of Belgium, really, is that what I saw from the highway as we went from the NL to Luxumbourg, and from NL to FR ... looks like a place I seriously want to spend some time in..

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