Vote for Everyone
An election is coming up in Brussels so there are candidate posters everywhere.
The design of all the posters are similar. They feature a headshot of the
candidate cropped the same way. Their
Observations
This is a collection of things that I see in front of and behind my eyes. These posts have been published near daily since October 2016.
Please Be Seated
Looking in the windows of a building as we passed by on the tram it was hard to
tell if it was a restaurant or a store selling well-designed chairs.
Movie Flashbacks
Every time I hear a European siren I think I’m in a foreign film. The whoop
whoop sound is so iconic, but so unlike anything in the US, that it triggers
memories
No Obligation
As my Uber driver offered to put my suitcase in the trunk, he said, no
obligation. I’m not sure what he meant. Was he saying that I didn’t need to tip
Two Languages
Everything in Brussels is in two languages: French and Dutch. But the names of
things are not translations of each other. The Dutch version is an unadorned
description. For example the Dutch name