Comments on Belgian Waffle: European Affairs

Ron, yours is way better

2012-01-12T11:15:01.161+01:00

Ron, yours is way better

A Commission official pointed me to your post clai...

2012-01-12T00:18:49.093+01:00

A Commission official pointed me to your post claiming that the one I wrote about the Parlamentarium could never reach yours.

The official was right! Thanks for your post! :)

oh, btw, curious 'bout what you'd make of ...

2011-11-04T14:42:08.710+01:00

oh, btw, curious 'bout what you'd make of the MAS, the new museum in anvers (eh oui). been wondering if it's as boring as it sounds. if you ever run out of punishment ideas and decide to take your descendants there ;-), would love to know what your last word is :). heard someone on the radio gushing about it, ('een frantalige' gushing about antwerp), she sounded as authentic as, well, out of inspiration here, the most un-authentic thing ever, even the interviewer sounded unimpressed. was probaly paid-to-gush.

hahaha, been looking for ideas for going out with ...

2011-11-04T14:17:35.078+01:00

hahaha, been looking for ideas for going out with an old high school classmate who's making a stopover in brussels probably just to show herself off as the high-flying jetsetting career woman who's now working at one of the top two financial institutions of the world while moi got stuck at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder. the show-off actually wanted to check-in at the conrad, then chose somewhere else (just slightly less showy) coz it was closer to the grand place. merci, merci, merci, belgian waffles and parliamentarium (evil grin) :-). unless i'll be in a good mood then;-). then i might choose the natural sciences museum ;-).

Thanks for this exhibition review,Waffle. Still,I ...

2011-10-29T12:13:28.324+02:00

Thanks for this exhibition review,Waffle. Still,I don't think I'll be going, don't want my kids to moan their whole life about "the day you took us to that useless european thing" (elaborated ,I guess, with taxpayers money), I don't think I will escape the school outing though...

Beside,There's already something like that in Mini Europe and my monsters labelled it uninteresting straight away (apart from a video game on a giant screen where you are supposed to catch,er,euros) you can't beat the space shuttle!

Hey! I loved quadratic equations. It was the only ...

2011-10-28T05:32:50.900+02:00

Hey! I loved quadratic equations. It was the only tolerable part of middle school.

"A 'whack a mole' style exhibit featu...

2011-10-27T19:17:14.199+02:00

"A 'whack a mole' style exhibit featuring MEPs might have helped" - still laughing!

We went to see the new Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh last weekend, and it's really rather lovely. The cafe was not particulalry inspired but did have Tunnocks tea cakes (yum, white plastic fluffy marshmallow!) and wafers. The gift shop was somewhat tartan-tastic and they'd even had their own tartan created in a rather pretty muted mauve colourway (I felt that had we been in Glasgow it would have been more retina searing).

Why oh why do they insist on making these things? ...

2011-10-27T18:25:22.432+02:00

Why oh why do they insist on making these things? Who sits in their office saying 'I *know* what will be hugely entertaining to visitors to our city....and it will only cost a FEW Million Euros.'

And then it gets funding?! That money could have been better spent on baling out Greece.

Are you still without a governing party?

Ali x

talking about exhibitions, history, new-member cou...

2011-10-27T16:23:36.150+02:00

talking about exhibitions, history, new-member countries and so on... ( by the way, I've been following you blog since about a year or so, like it very much, especially that I'm a wife of an eurodrone - no, I can't say that about my own husband ! -and a mother of two boys, 11 and 9 - so, I can sort of relate to ...) , there is an inetersting interactive exhibiton about communism and solidarity movement . I know, I know. sounds bornig, but my older kid went to see it and said it was cool. It's in French and English. It gives an interesting perspective and explanation on what was life about behind the Iron Curtain. Lots of games and quizes and a nice BD book as a gift at the end. http://solidarnosc.be/en/ Go with your kids (of course! ;-) might be ineteresting for them. (marta)

Long live the Unicorns! A non-European, non relig...

2011-10-27T15:23:56.062+02:00

Long live the Unicorns!
A non-European, non religious -however only viewed by others as non christian - who lived in Brussels for 8 years, never visited the parliament- AHGRIUM, only because , Ashtablieft, didn't belong!!!
Thank you for your piercing insight.

Delicious minutes of ze trip to propoganda land. T...

2011-10-27T14:19:47.379+02:00

Delicious minutes of ze trip to propoganda land. Thank you, Waffle.

About the supposedly euro kitch boutique: I think it would be interesting to enquire on which grounds this German 'souvenir' boutique won the tender. GraaAh.

Thank you for bringing this new device for boring ...

2011-10-27T13:58:05.436+02:00

Thank you for bringing this new device for boring my children to tears to my attention. I will take full advantage of it.

When I visited Brussels again last summer, me and ...

2011-10-27T12:08:21.026+02:00

When I visited Brussels again last summer, me and my sister made a special trip to the European Parliament and its surrounds. If this had been available I would definitely have gone. I'm 21 and have not that distant memories of double maths. I think it should also be mentioned that me and brussels have very bad history. I like to not exceed my poor judgement of the place by visiting places of interest or beauty. However I also love the EU quite a lot (completely unfounded, sentimental attachment ....probably based on a mild irrational childhood fear that my mother will be deported back to Germany from the UK if we ever left it).

I used the word Let (Latvian) to advance in a rece...

2011-10-27T11:30:23.025+02:00

I used the word Let (Latvian) to advance in a recent prosecco-fueled game of Het Grote Taalspel (yeah, so what? What did YOU get for YOUR birthday?).
http://www.scalaleukerleren.nl/taalspel.htm

Other than that it feels like my sense of European unity is dead as a doornail. You and Beatrice jumped up in unison upon leaving, I trust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w_77SKmPNrc