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Huib Billiet Adriaansen wrote an exciting book about the shared history of Cuba and Belgium since the early sixteenth century.

A regular feature comprising short reviews of a selection of socio-cultural events and works recently published in the Low Countries.

Cornucopia. In Flanders fields Belgian waffles and Ghent chicken casserole are being served. Too much is never enough. The author serves the reader each letter of the alphabet and paints a picture of waiters shrouded in monk's habits, waist...

Four Flemish and Dutch recipes to try at home

A sad anniversary. 1915 was the year of the first gas attack and of the Second Battle of Ypres, but it was also the year that John McCrae wrote his poem ‘In Flanders Fields'. However, the Great War was about more than gas attacks and the de...

A regular feature comprising short reviews of a selection of socio-cultural events and works recently published in the Low Countries.

The author doesn't need a reason for not travelling. Just as the reader doesn't need one when he decides he will go and pack his suitcases. This article is not a diatribe against tourism – and most certainly not against travelling. Ad Vinge...

A regular feature comprising short reviews of a selection of socio-cultural events and works recently published in the Low Countries.

Politicians in Belgium as well as the Netherlands are often quite keen to promote the concept of the self-sufficient citizen, whereby people are largely responsible for their own welfare. Yes, there is a safety net, but they should not make...

A regular feature comprising short reviews of a selection of socio-cultural events and works recently published in the Low Countries.

About love and lust in the contemporary Low Countries. There's no heart without loins and no loins without heart, and just think what your head can get up to. Love is a battlefield, lust is a struggle in which your body and soul are at stak...

A 'tour d'horizon' of well-being and happiness in the Low Countries. Welfare may be a subject of ongoing concern, happiness should not. Happiness exists precisely by grace of the imperfection of our existence, in which we are, at best, caug...