In addition to endless discussions about the weather, expats engage in serious deliberations about houseguests at this time of year. Now I have to finish cleaning up and getting ready for our next visitors!Here's something else Belgium is famous for. And let me just apologize in advance for the days I show up on your doorstep in the U.S. wearing my bad habits like a fur coat, smelling like a rotten fish. As grownups, we usually only go out to dinner with other grownups, and then retreat to our own base camps to safely inflict our peculiar patterns of life on our family and only on our family . If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium is a 1969 romantic comedy film made by Wolper Pictures and released by United Artists. (and Rome: Roma? Gorgeous architecture everywhere. She's still smiling, though perhaps a bit nervously, as we pedaled along through the tall grasses along the river, with nary another person in view. I'm guessing arriving at Penn Station New York in the good old days might have been like this. That's amazing because movies of this sort usually tend to be 10 years behind the times, and I went expecting another dose of the Bermuda shorts syndrome. We did see a lot of houses and sheep, though.
As has been put forth many times on The Factor, NATO must attack the sites where ISIS is based. To me, he looks like the Charlie Brown of Belgium.We had a little heat wave here last week, with temperatures and humidity that brought back "fond" memories of N.J. summers. I asked my mom to explain the meaning to me, and she told me that when many (most in those days?)
Every restaurant and bar had outdoor seating, and there were families, groups of studenty-types, and older folks like us (O.K., Susan, like me. 18 days. And after only two days in Amsterdam, she had the courage (or sheer stupidity) to agree to go off on a bike ride together. Historic Images Part Number: cvp71274 Following the premiere of a documentary about these new European travelers: young, broke, and hip, “If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium,” is a whimsical, pleasant satire. I hope I haven't scared you off with Ben Franklin quotes about stinking fish. Being an expat forces you to spend extended time with friends and family who decamp in your Amsterdam apartment, commingling in the one shower, two toilets, and dollhouse kitchen. And thus, Susan and I headed to Belgium for Part Two of the "blind leading the blind" tour.You don't need Rick Steves (or Suzanne Vine) to tell you that the train station alone in Antwerp makes the visit worthwhile. I think they went almost every Saturday night. As has been put forth many times on The Factor, NATO must attack the sites where ISIS is based. One of those titles, which intrigued me, was This movie poster was taken in the Grote Markt in Antwerp.
Dana Jenkins McGuffey, are you listening?By now, I hope I have convinced you that Belgium (just a two hour train ride away) is a great side trip for you if you visit Amsterdam. A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher." Let's just say it has definitely been discovered, although some unexpected hot weather seemed to have kept the tourists confined to the center of town. It doesn't hurt that it stays light out until nearly 11 p.m. Taken at 10:15 p.m., according to my trusty iPhoto info.Here's Susan with her new best friends, a group of Chinese students who are studying in Belgium. Remade in 1987 for TV. So even with the risk of fish stench, when you visit friends in faraway places, there is the chance to spend quality time together and really have the chance to connect in a meaningful way.When you travel together, you find out things about your friends you never knew. Hosting houseguests thrusts you back into times long ago, when you lived side by side with people who weren't family. I'm not exactly known for my sharp sense of direction, and I'm a relative newcomer to Amsterdam, after all. I miss them! PHOTO FRONT PHOTO BACK. The huge tour bus obscures the view of the Brabo fountain, a favorite spot for tourists to pose. So after the killings in Belgium, France, Turkey, and other member states, NATO should declare war on ISIS and the Islamic jihad. Since my sense of direction is as poor as my biblical knowledge, I had to go back to find out the source of the "blind leading the blind" reference. Or something like that. The group does a nine-country, 18day bus tour with clashing, comic personalities and lots of romantic possibilities. I used to love to peek at the scribbled piece of paper they left for the babysitter with the title of the movie they were going to see. It really does make you excited about seeing a city when the first sight to greet you is a spectacular train station. So, just like you knew intimate things about your roommates, you certainly know critically important things about your houseguests, like who dumps his belongings all over the place, and how she takes her coffee. So after the killings in Belgium, France, Turkey, and other member states, NATO should declare war on ISIS and the Islamic jihad. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. Important things, like the fact that Susan wrote a paper Having visitors here gives me the chance to feel like I have settled in, like this place is beginning to feel like home. In other words, living the expat life transports you back to your camp or college days when you had roommates and had to share bathrooms and flaunt your bad habits in front of each other. And probably would be, if I was away on holidays in Europe, simply because I've always wanted to be in Belgium on a Tuesday just so I could use that line. But my teacher-friend Susan was up for the challenge. If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium is, as the title indicates, about the kind of package European tour that Americans were mad about in the 1950s and 1960s. Happily, in keeping with the title of the film, we were there on a Tuesday.
That was a first!From Antwerp, we took a short train ride to Bruges.
It's the "talk of the town", as the song by Maybe because this is our first year here, I look forward to the short-term emigration of each one of our visitors. For my first summer visitor, that is. By the way, that line is out of a movie, but I'm not sure… etc.).