Noooooo....It is the best tofu I've ever had, too. This is awful news.

How'd you entertain yourself on the flight over? I can't sleep on planes so I'm always bored out of my mind, even when I pay for the in-flight wifi and watch a movie.

What's your best piece of travel advice?

I had to start traveling a lot for work a little over a year ago but it still hasn't clicked for me.

Oof…. that’s tough. A couple of times in the summer we go to VA beach for the day, and VA beach as a town is exactly what you’d expect. However, that northern part of the beach away from the boardwalk is basically where I learned that I love the beach and swimming in the ocean. So that, I suppose.

Stupid sexy Flanders.

Cold and calm. I always equate it to The Shire and Belgians very much like Hobbits. They have their creature comforts and are a bit grumpy, gossipy, and petty; but overall a lil bit adorable and sweet.

Whats your favorite non-RVA place in Virginia?

Congrats to your Oma! How’s Flanders?

Yesterday I learned that twin oaks is ending production of their fantastic tofu. I'm bummed, I don't know of a tofu that even comes close to the quality and firmness of twin oaks.

I think it was more for the US audience though they did have them at traffic stops. We had a couple of bomb threats at ISB in Boitsfort. I think the non EEC community had a little more over site than the locals. We had an area referred to as the American Ghetto in Rhodes St Genes with the houses larger and all painted white.

Long Tall Sally

That’s interesting, after the Zaventem bombings it was surreal to see Belgian military with rifles in the train stations as Belgians are so unused to seeing guns, most police dont even carry them for nigh on 30 years now. What was the point then?

I don't think so.

I also love Day in the Life, Eleanor Rigby, and Let it Be.

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I had the same experience at Canal Walk on 20th. 5 years of no issues other than claiming the pitbull a neighbor had was a golden retriever. I suggested the staff get their eyes checked. It was a muscled up pit that was very aggressive in the hallways and was owned by a young man that little control over the dog on a leash,

Volunteer at Habitat for Humanity on a build. You’ll pick up a lot of skills and tricks, and typically the paid staff and/or lead volunteers will be able to give you some guidance.

Neen and Dank je is the extent of my vlaams. I am from Montreal originally with Scottish parents so French was the option for me to learn. Cue Parisians telling me my accent was off. Having an EEC ID did make our life much easier than my American school mates. The gendarmes at the White Horse Inn at the Grand Place asking for ID cards on a Friday night . Blue (US) you stayed behind Yellow you were allowed to leave with no issues. I wonder what people in the US would think of officers with uzis standing in the pub checking IDs. This was in the mid to late '70s

Is Yesterday cheating since really its just a Paul song?

Bruxelles is the french spelling, it is a massive sore point amongst the flemish. My mother hates it but I have always been more partial to the dutch than the flemish, despite myself being flemish. It is telling that as a belgian I have been coming here my entire life, but beyond a single trip to the battle of the bulge I have never set foot in wallonia.

Really its two countries that despise each other taped together

Maar spreek je vlaams?

I loved living in Bruxelles. Good food, better food, great food. My high school hangouts were the bars around the Grand Place. I left for my senior year goodbye tour from Zeebrugge on a ferry to Dover on my hopped up 50cc Suzuki motorcycle. I found the Flemish people much more friendly than the Wallons in the area south of Bruxelles. That could have something to do with all the Americans living in the area around the city.

My favorite Beatles songs are Yesterday and Across the Universe.

well lets remember the european theater was over earlier than the pacific; as she tells it one day the belgian army was going down the street, the next day they were going the other way down the street and then there were germans and no school for a long time. Her father was a gamekeeper on some vague noble’s land so they were mainly growing their own food and stayin in the woods. I think the largest change was that she went back to school.

She seems rather blasé about the whole thing really. I think post-war europe was more difficult for her.

Whats your favorite beatles song?

What was she doing when she found out the war was over?

I lived in lofts at canal walk a decade ago, nice to see that their incompetence in the front office hasn’t changed.

Tree Hill Farm on Rt 5./Capital Trail

powhatan park is absolutely the place I would go.