Friday, December 16, 2011

Belgium from A to Z


What can you experience in Belgium?

A for abbey, absurdity, archaeology, Art Nouveau

B for beer, battlefields, billiard, beguinages, belfries, baroque

C for comic strip, capitalism, castle, chocolate, cycling, cheese, chicory, carnival, ceramics

D for danse, democracy, diamonds, diplomacy, Father Damien

E for European Union

F for fashion, food, federalism, fries, festivals

G for gardens, gothic architecture, green, glass

H for humanists, history, humor

I for industrial heritage, international

J for jenever

K for kermesse

L for lace, languages, liberal

M for musea, monarchy, mussels, medieval cities

N for neutrality

O for old

P for painters, politics, Poirot, pralines, printing, paper

Q for the Queen Elizabeth contest, but also quaint museums

R for religious orders/life, rain, railways

S for saxophone, spa, self-deprecating, soccer, surrealism, sprouts

T for tennis, trade, trappist, taxes

U for urban

V for vegetables, vol-au-vent

W for waffles, world exhibition, waterzooi

Z for zoology

None of these are uniquely Belgian in isolation, but in combination, they make Belgium a pretty unique country consisting of beautiful Brussels, fabulous Flanders and wonderful Wallonia.