| Page Views: 2,678 Last Visit to Brussels: April, 2009 | BRUXELLES - BRUSSEL - BRUSSELS by breughel - last update: May 1, 2009 |
BRUSSELS CLIMATE. | Around Brussels - Snow at Easter 2008 |
I used to show here a winter landscape, somewhere outside Brussels, by Pieter Bruegel.
I'm now showing a real winter landscape, around Brussels, on 25th March 2008.
We had here in Belgium the coldest Easter since 40 years and snow we hadn't seen in Brussels at this season since half a century!
The summer temperatures were also markedly low for the season.
On October 30th, 2008 it started snowing here just south of Brussels. Never seen that here in 50 years!
It has been confirmed that for Belgium this 2008-09 winter is the coldest since 1987.
According to a famous politician we should have a warming up of the climate. People will again say that politicians don't keep their word!
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| Outside Brussels in old times. |
|  | THE BEST OF BRUSSELS MUSEUMS. Although I was born and lived 50 years in Brussels, I decided to write not much on my home town; other VT members wrote here numerous and excellent comments about Brussels. What could I write more that is not redundant?
I nevertheless made an exception for some comments on the Royal Museum of Fine Arts and the distinction to be made between Flemish and Dutch painters .
Indeed a VT visitor, from over the ocean, wrote a comment which risks raising a problem with our Dutch neighbours:
" Highlights include "Belgian" Bruegel(s), Bosch, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and Jordaens paintings (I put "Belgian" in " because Belgian as a country did not exist when these painters were alive)."
The last part is right but Rembrandt was never Flemish or Belgian, he was a genuine Dutchman from Leiden (between Rotterdam and Amsterdam)!
For those who like to visit museums, I added some tips about the best museums in Brussels |
| | REMARKABLE MUSEUMS Having revisited recently, here in Brussels, the Cinquantenaire and the two main museums located in this park i.e. the Army Museum and the Royal Museum of Art and History, I noticed that as what concerns quality and variety they are as good as better-known museums from abroad.
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hquittner Sat Aug 29, 2009 15:48 UTC
What are Belgian pralines made of? Here in New Orleans they are: sugars,butter and lots of pecan halves (absolutely no chocolate). The best (no lnger available) used "la cuite" the annual scourings of the sugar refining vats Like a molasses) | icunme Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:35 UTC
Fascinating photos/info - especially liked that somewhere other than Italy there are "dialects" so well preserved by the locals. | ranger49 Sun Aug 9, 2009 19:35 UTC
Interesting and helpful information about the Flemish/French languages, dialects and accents. | margaretvn Thu May 21, 2009 09:40 UTC
all my favourites are here in this great page - the Bruegels, Rubens and Begian pralines! thanks for sharing |
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