leisure in chronological order
- October 2008
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07/10/2008 - Expatica networking dinner...
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01/10/2008 - Bienvenue au Chateaux - sleep like a princess...
- September 2008
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22/09/2008 - Atomium at 50 continues attracting visitors...
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15/09/2008 - Facebook and Frites unite Belgium...
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12/09/2008 - How to be a polyglot...
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08/09/2008 - O’ Dance Holiday - “Viva Cuba”...
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06/09/2008 - A cosmopolitan manifesto...
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05/09/2008 - Sleep your way across Europe...
- August 2008
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29/08/2008 - Bordeaux reaches out to top-class tourists...
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28/08/2008 - Hitchcock’s Rope: Society’s Murder...
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25/08/2008 - Prophet vs profit: dilemma for brewing monks...
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21/08/2008 - European cinema -- a blog for the best...
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16/08/2008 - Superheroes seeking smart, strong women...
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13/08/2008 - Cinema - Star Wars: The Clone Wars...
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12/08/2008 - Third culture club...
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09/08/2008 - What is ‘Everyday spirituality’?...
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05/08/2008 - No spot in the Med safe from tsunamis...
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01/08/2008 - Tourists getting used to bombings...
- July 2008
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29/07/2008 - Opening Maps - Latin American Photography...
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25/07/2008 - Best foot forward in Georgia...
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17/07/2008 - Cinema - To the bat poles!...
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15/07/2008 - Summer in Dinant - Storming the citadel...
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15/07/2008 - Summer activities - indoors - in Belgium 2008...
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14/07/2008 - Carla Bruni 'hurt' by critics of new album...
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10/07/2008 - Cinema - The Dark Knight and Kung Fu Panda...
- June 2008
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27/06/2008 - Jewellery comes in bright colours this summer...
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27/06/2008 - Photos of the month - L'enfant qui pleut...
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26/06/2008 - Cinema - 'The Devils' are in the details...
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20/06/2008 - It's not only Rock 'n' Roll, Baby! - A Story of Art and Music...
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17/06/2008 - The Dutch version of Sex and the City...
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16/06/2008 - Dining under the stars...
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12/06/2008 - Cinema Reviews : 11 - 17 June 2008...
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09/06/2008 - "Brussels Happiness" - the Atomium at 50...
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03/06/2008 - Summer diversions in Belgium...
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02/06/2008 - Fashion giant Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71...
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02/06/2008 - Smoking - the new year round outdoor cooking and BBQ experience...
- May 2008
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29/05/2008 - Cinema Reviews : 28 May - 4 June 2008...
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27/05/2008 - Balcony and terrace planting...
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19/05/2008 - Some picnic fun...
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16/05/2008 - Cannes kicks off with vision of apocalypse and kung-fu pandas...
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16/05/2008 - Cannes rolls out the red carpet for opening...
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15/05/2008 - Organising a garden party with style...
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15/05/2008 - Cinema Reviews : 15 - 22 May 2008...
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14/05/2008 - Finding food from home...
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12/05/2008 - Like lettuce or ice-cream, fine wines tackle how to keep cool...
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09/05/2008 - Dior museum celebrates dandies...
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09/05/2008 - A French touch of "class" for "vulgar" Eurovision?...
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08/05/2008 - Cinema Reviews : 8 - 15 May 2008...
- April 2008
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30/04/2008 - Cinema Reviews : 1 - 7 May 2008...
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28/04/2008 - Shopping in Belgium...
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25/04/2008 - Going green with ICT...
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24/04/2008 - Brussels Short Film Festival 2008...
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18/04/2008 - Getting into iPod...
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15/04/2008 - Flea markets. Props. And Click....
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14/04/2008 - Television on the Internet taking off for real...
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11/04/2008 - Coming up on TV: kids and family-centred game shows...
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11/04/2008 - Italian mountaineers cut the cheese in Thailand...
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11/04/2008 - TV docs on a roll, with China, climate change topping sales...
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10/04/2008 - Cinema Reviews : 10 - 16 April 2008...
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03/04/2008 - Cinema Reviews : 2 - 9 April 2008...
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01/04/2008 - World's oldest sound recording played in US...
- March 2008
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30/03/2008 - Comic book originals break into art market...
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29/03/2008 - Rock icon Patti Smith shares memories at first Paris art show...
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28/03/2008 - Where ships take the elevator - the boat lifts of Mons...
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27/03/2008 - Cinema Reviews : 28 March - 2 April 2008...
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21/03/2008 - The soundtrack for every rambler...
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20/03/2008 - Cinema - Director Minghella dies...
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20/03/2008 - Hugo Claus, giant of Flemish literature, dies...
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17/03/2008 - Jan Cox - a tormented artist...
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15/03/2008 - A correspondence in embroidery...
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15/03/2008 - Long-forgotten French baroque opera staged in Vienna...
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14/03/2008 - Such a flap over Eurovision contender...
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13/03/2008 - Cinema Reviews - 12-19 March 2008...
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04/03/2008 - King of fish joins elite league of three-star Michelin chefs...
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03/03/2008 - A home for a home: swapping your personal space...
- February 2008
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28/02/2008 - Cinema Reviews - 28 February 2008...
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23/02/2008 - Ireland falling slowly for Oscar-nominated modern musical...
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20/02/2008 - Foodie French with a touch of Vincent...
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20/02/2008 - There will be Oscars...
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18/02/2008 - Jack Black romp wraps up showcase at Berlin film fest...
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14/02/2008 - Valentine's Day chocolates - product of slave labour?...
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11/02/2008 - Swimming in Brussels - at a depth of 10 metres...
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08/02/2008 - Chinese lion dancing is a glue that binds in Indonesia...
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07/02/2008 - Cinema Reviews - 7 February 2008...
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07/02/2008 - Cinema - Putting you in the picture...
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04/02/2008 - Brussels animation festival Anima starts...
- January 2008
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30/01/2008 - Carl De Keyzer: Vision of power...
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25/01/2008 - "Super Size Me" attempts to bring Osama down to size...
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24/01/2008 - Gay life: Europe's first gay nursing home opens...
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22/01/2008 - Arab art at the Brussels' Royal Flemish Theatre...
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22/01/2008 - Still smurfing strong after all these years...
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22/01/2008 - In Belgium, chips are part of the culture - no two stands alike...
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17/01/2008 - Belgian Kris Van Assche kicks off his menswear show in Paris...
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11/01/2008 - Alechinsky from A to Y...
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05/01/2008 - Gazing into the Tech crystal ball - predictions for 2008...
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04/01/2008 - French cartoon hero Titeuf finally makes English debut... in South Africa...
- December 2007
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17/12/2007 - The annual Cornford-Matheson Multi-Cultural Mingler...
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07/12/2007 - Belgian beer - in a glass of its own...
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04/12/2007 - The Long Weekender - 6-9 December 2007...
- November 2007
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13/11/2007 - B is for Belgium and the Bossa Nova...
- September 2007
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29/09/2007 - 629 - the social networking club in Brussels...
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03/09/2007 - When toasters could fly - a museum for domestic appliances...
- August 2007
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13/08/2007 - August Diversions 2 - Drenthe, the Sablon, West Flanders and Belgium on a tabletop....
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08/08/2007 - Queen Nefertiti: More than a pretty face...
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06/08/2007 - August Diversions - Tongeren, Durbuy, Jewish Antwerp and Brussels by D Tours...
- May 2007
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03/05/2007 - Celebrating May Day in Belgium...
- March 2007
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13/03/2007 - Nature calling......
- February 2007
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08/02/2007 - Thaï food...
- November 2006
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09/11/2006 - Cucina italiana...
- September 2006
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24/09/2006 - Fusion food...
- August 2006
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22/08/2006 - Family-friendly flying...
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16/08/2006 - Dampened holiday plans...
- July 2006
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21/07/2006 - Caribbean cuisine...
- June 2006
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08/06/2006 - French cuisine...
- April 2006
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27/04/2006 - Belgian cuisine...
- March 2006
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21/03/2006 - Short breaks: Stralsund...
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17/03/2006 - Food for the soul...
- February 2006
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10/02/2006 - Les Arcs, the Anglophone ski resort...
- January 2006
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09/01/2006 - Winter getaway: Why Ibiza is still hot...
- December 2005
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20/12/2005 - The best bars in Brussels...
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20/12/2005 - The best bars in Antwerp, Brugge, Ghent...
- September 2005
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27/09/2005 - Weekend breaks: Back to nature in Drenthe...
- August 2005
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11/08/2005 - Exploring Brussels in sight and sound...
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04/08/2005 - Summer in the city...
- July 2005
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11/07/2005 - Weekend breaks: Gdansk...
- May 2005
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20/05/2005 - Simply Mussels...
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18/05/2005 - Stompin' in the Sablon...
- April 2005
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20/04/2005 - For the 10th Tenacious Time...
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06/04/2005 - Choc Waves...
- March 2005
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17/03/2005 - Youth Culture...
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08/03/2005 - Scents and Sensibility...
- February 2005
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22/02/2005 - Miller and Magritte...
- January 2005
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27/01/2005 - Sprechen sie Deutsch?...
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20/01/2005 - Theatre of the Absurd...
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18/01/2005 - Vismet's kismet...
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07/01/2005 - Brussels' lost boy...
- December 2004
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17/12/2004 - And so this is Christmas?...
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07/12/2004 - Find shopping locations and services in Belgium...
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07/12/2004 - Find a Personal Trainer in Belgium...
- November 2004
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19/11/2004 - A Tale of Two Theatres...
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18/11/2004 - Time travel...
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05/11/2004 - Glass, metal and flower power...
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04/11/2004 - Healthy lunch in a hurry...
- October 2004
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29/10/2004 - Durbuy: why small is beautiful...
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21/10/2004 - Signs of the times...
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20/10/2004 - Ice and heat...
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19/10/2004 - Strolling in the Marolles...
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12/10/2004 - Not so sour grapes...
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01/10/2004 - Welcome to the cheap seats...
- September 2004
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29/09/2004 - Belgium's book town...
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17/09/2004 - Jewish Antwerp...
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08/09/2004 - Disney in a day...
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03/09/2004 - Allez les Belges...
- August 2004
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05/08/2004 - Shopping in Ghent...
- July 2004
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19/07/2004 - Don't Rain on my Parade...
- June 2004
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21/06/2004 - The best seat in the house...
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18/06/2004 - Splashing in Spa...
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09/06/2004 - An uplifting experience...
- May 2004
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21/05/2004 - Opportunity knocks...
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12/05/2004 - A grate job!...
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05/05/2004 - Paradise Found...
- April 2004
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22/04/2004 - Wot? No Clothes?...
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20/04/2004 - Flower Power...
- March 2004
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24/03/2004 - The Big One Four O...
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18/03/2004 - True blue...
- February 2004
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26/02/2004 - Downhill in the flat country...
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20/02/2004 - Searching for sudden death...
- October 2003
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22/10/2003 - What's cooking in Belgium...
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02/10/2003 - The wedding dress trail...
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01/10/2003 - Monk-y beer business...
- September 2003
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03/09/2003 - A coastal clime...
- August 2003
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07/08/2003 - Navigating Belgium...
- July 2003
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30/07/2003 - Guzzling Green: the Brussels Scene...
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30/07/2003 - Specialty food shops...
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30/07/2003 - Only here for the beer?...
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30/07/2003 - The best-kept shop list...
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30/07/2003 - Finding bargains in little old Lille...
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30/07/2003 - The male female divide...
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30/07/2003 - The best restaurants in Antwerp...
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30/07/2003 - Irish pubs in Brussels...
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30/07/2003 - Cooking French fries the Belgian way...
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30/07/2003 - Tongeren – antique buff heaven...
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29/07/2003 - Vegetarian Cuisine...
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29/07/2003 - Scandinavian restaurants...
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29/07/2003 - Seafood restaurants...
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28/07/2003 - Gay and lesbian bars and clubs in Brussels...
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28/07/2003 - Discover East Flanders...
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25/07/2003 - Here for the beer...
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- Eileen, Thanks for the information it will be of great help. I have a couple of additional questions, like the cost of a nice 2 or 3 bedroom apartment or home and the cost of a new car as I will be leaving my vehicles behind. Can you lease cars in Belgium? Do most of the apartments and home's come with the full range of appliances like in the US? Are their any web sites you could recommend for shopping for cars, homes or appliances? Thanks again for all your help. Best Regards, Gary Dear Gary, There is a great variation on price of property, depending on area, size, state of renovation etc. , so it is difficult to give you an accurate range, but as a guideline, as 2 bed apartment would be between 1100 and 1900 Eur. You could have a look at www.immoweb.be which will give you a good idea of what is available in different price ranges. Regarding your cars - yes you can lease cars in Belgium, but you will need to be careful of the lease period, if you are unsure how long you will be here. It can be very expensive to break the lease. Regarding the electrical equipment provided, you will not usually find the complete range of appliances in an apartment. It depends whether you are looking for furnished or unfurnished. In an unfurnished you will usually get the cooker and fridge, although the fridge may be a lot smaller than what you are used to. A lot of the kitchens in apartments are quite small. In a furnished apartment you may also get a microwave and sometimes a washing machine/drier. But it really depends on the individual apartment. There is quite a good second hand market for appliances and cars (see Expatica web-site and also www.xpats.com). Hope this helps, Best Regards Eileen Money General Manager eileen.money@map-relocations.com www.map-relocations.com Asked by : Gary Answered by : Relocation Expert Eileen Money
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