Claire's Brussels Blog

So, Delhaize helpfully write "tissues" on their tissue packets, in eight languages. Which is nice, although they write "hanki...

I have this ridiculous recurring fantasy of what happens after my first novel, "Inevitable", gets published to critical acclaim in...

Okay, so I really want to read Zadie Smith's "The Autograph Man". It's set in London, where I lived for five years as a ch...

For a tiny country, Belgium gets mentioned a lot on the West Wing. So I thought, you know, in the interests of expat research, or something,...

Well, it may be a lot easier to lose your cash card in a machine here (due to very little thought going into the design of the whole process...

... Cash points which give you a little advert at the beginning reminding you to take your card back. Then at the end they don't give th...

It feels a lot like being pregnant. Not, you understand, that I really have any concept of what that might feel like. But I imagine you walk...