Belgian separatism

We've been hearing all these rumours about being very hard to adapt in Flemish areas if you don't speak the language. So we asked a Flemish guy about this and his answer came bluntly "As long as you don't speak French, it's ok".
Thanks God our French is lousy :)

The small nothings

Or in its original name, Les Petits Riens.
Nice name, nice second hand shop and nice concept behind - people give away everything they don't need anymore, the shop sells it at very good prices and the money goes to people in need. So you shop cheap while also knowing that you're doing a good deed.
Apart from the social implications, the shop itself is a great experience. It's like a compressed visit in a lot of people's houses, long live the voyeurism. And you can find really anything you'd be dreaming of: furniture, crockery, pictures, clothes, picnic objects, old cassettes, toys just to mention a few.
A large warehouse of people's lives and history.