Choose one Belgian city or the other, or combine both in the same trip. Katherine Lawrey – with the help of SuperBreak – uncovers some unexpected and contrasting festive experiences
Category: Belgium
Jacques Brel and his secret home of the French Riviera
In the 60s, Jacques Brel has hidden his forbidden love with his mistress, Sylvie Rivet, in a house in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, on the edge of the Mediterranean. This is where he wrote some of his most beautiful songs like “Amsterdam”, “Matilda” and “The flat country”. The new owner, an Italian, wanted to keep the soul of the house and of the great artist who has occupied.
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German Beer Ad Shows Men Cradling Their Beer Bellies Like Pregnant Moms | Bored Panda
One German beer company has decided to take an honest approach to their advertising, and as you can see, the result is as refreshing as a cold beer on a hot day.
Source: German Beer Ad Shows Men Cradling Their Beer Bellies Like Pregnant Moms | Bored Panda
Naptown Pint: A trip to Belgium is a reminder of our roots
Before coming here, I already had a healthy love and respect for the European brewing tradition that laid the foundation for what we make and sell stateside today. Farmhouses, sours, dubbels, tripels, quads, saisons, witbiers, lambics, gueuzes… they all got their start in Europe, many of them long before the idea of America even existed.But as I sat at a table at Brouwerij De Halve Maan — brouwerij is Belgian for brewery, by the way — sipping on my personal favorite of theirs, the Straffe Hendrick Wild (available in the U.S.), it struck me how much we, as Americans, take the European brewing tradition for granted.
READ FULL STORY at the Source: Naptown Pint: A trip to Belgium is a reminder of our roots – Capital Gazette
Surprised about Wallonia’s CETA stand? You don’t watch enough movies
For two decades now, among foreign movie buffs, the European city most closely identified with rising anxieties surrounding globalization, immigration and economic dislocation has been the hard-scrabble Wallonian industrial city of Seraing, near Liege. Seraing is the hometown of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the celebrated Belgian movie-making brothers and repeat winners of Palmes d’Or at Cannes, who have set their remarkable explorations of economic distress in the region they know best.
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Django Reinhardt NY Festival in November | French Culture
Going stronger than ever The Django Reinhardt NY Festival and The Allstars have taken the US by storm. They are headed again to NY from Paris, landing at Birdland, their official home, where it all started in 2000, with an ‘idea’ inspired by Producers Ettore Stratta and Pat Philips due to their work with famed Jazz Violinist Stephane Grappelli, Django’s partner, back in the 30’s and 40’s. The Producers set out to bring Django’s style out from underground to ‘overground’ and spread the word: HOT JAZZ is better than ever and here to stay!
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