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Gaufres de Liège

Posted in Belgium, Christmas, Cooking, Liège, Recipes on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

That’s Waffles from Liège to non-French speakers.  During the months I spent living and working in Liège last year I picked up a waffle-eating addiction habit.
Belgium is known for its beer, for its chocolate, but also for its waffles.  Many of the bigger cities in Wallonia, the French-speaking region, have their own type of waffle [...]

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Bath Christmas Market

Posted in Bath, Belgium, Christmas, Food, Markets on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This time last year I was traipsing through the Christmas market in Liège – this year it was the Christmas market in Bath.  After the Belgian take on Christmas markets (I also went to one in Brugges and one in Brussels) I have to say the one in Bath was a little disappointing.  To start [...]

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Liège under water

Posted in Belgium, Cooking, Recipes on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Apparently Liège was hit by flooding a week or two ago. There’s a video of the flooding and some interviews here: http://www.rtc.be/content/view/5199/166/
Also I thought I’d share a recipe for making chicken satay. I made Nasi Goreng to go with it, using a recipe in a book published by the UN which I picked [...]

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Christmas among cultures

Posted in Belgium, Christmas, Cultures, France on January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The holiday season is beginning to draw to a close, and I hope you’ve all passed a good Christmas with family/friends/whoever you spent the period with! I’ve been with family and I’ll be heading off to France (or at least a different part of it since I’m already in France) sometime around the middle [...]

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Temporary constancy

Posted in Belgium, Christmas, Cultures, France, Moving on December 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »

I am now back ‘home’ for the Christmas and New Year holidays. I’ll be spending some time in the south of France and then hopefully some time skiing in the Alps in early January, before going to look for accommodation (amongst other things) in Annecy, France, my next abode.
On my last night in Liege, [...]

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Antwerpen

Posted in Belgium, Travelling on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Today I spent the day visiting Antwerp, a city in Flanders. I’ve heard good things about it before, so I had relatively high expectations before going. And while there were definitely things I liked about the place, there were a couple of points (things that were out of control of anyone’s control though) [...]

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Last day of work

Posted in Belgium, Moving, Work on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday was my last day at work here in Belgium, and saying goodbye to all my colleagues finally brought on the usual ‘leaving symptoms’. It’s the first time really that my leaving plans have actually begun to have an impact on my life. I also really don’t like goodbyes – this is one [...]

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