The street garden that a couple in Schaerbeek was forced to remove from in front of their home has re-appeared, with the permission of authorities. Kinda sorta. Last month, the municipality scooped up the garden, its flowers and greenery contained in a raised garden box, and put it away in...

Plan B is an initiative in Brussels to point you in the direction of all kinds of cool events – online and off – to fill in your summer agenda in the absence of a holiday abroad. Mega popular Belgian rapper Zwangere G is on board, which is why his concert this week is called Plan B by Zwangere G ...

Tenants in Brussels are being reminded to be extra-vigilant when hunting for a place to live, after an apartment rental scam in Etterbeek left several people out of pocket. It is reported that a woman living in a rented apartment pretended to be the owner and listed the property for rent on social...

This year 11 July falls on a Saturday, so what a shame that Vlaanderen Feest had to rein in its celebration because of the coronavirus. Still, the scaled-back party has a lovely initiative at its core. Flemish Community Day is an annual holiday celebrated by the entire region. Its roots are in a...

It’s nicknamed the ardent city in honour of its fierce independent spirit. For 800 years, the once industrial powerhouse of Belgium was a separate principality, ruled by a prince-bishop until the end of the 18th century. Today, the largest city in Wallonia is a beacon of art and design, shopping,...

School in Belgium will be compulsory from the age of five, after Dutch- and French-speaking authorities approved lowering the compulsory school age by a year. The Wallonia-Brussels Federation parliament unanimously approved the move on Wednesday, after Flanders did the same last week. The third and...

Residents in the eastern suburbs of Brussels can expect increased flight noise nuisance for six weeks, starting next Monday. The main 25-R runway at Brussels Airport will be closed for repair works from 13 July to 23 August, requiring a change to flight patterns. Wind directions permitting, the...

If you, like me, were told as a youth that all dogs know how to swim and so when your pet jumps into the lake, you need not worry, you will be shocked at the following news. Pieter Vanacker of Kapelle-op-den-Bos, north of Brussels, gives swimming lessons to dogs. “It’s a misconception that all dogs...

Do you have a “tunnel reflex”? Flanders’ Roads and Traffic Agency would like you to and have launched a safety campaign about it. Some 400 accidents a year happen in tunnels in Flanders – nearly half of them in the region’s six biggest tunnels, including the Kennedy ( pictured ), Craeybeckx and...

Instagram is all about sharing what you think is pretty - it could be yourself, your breakfast, your dog or a landscape. But there are Instagrammers who do not really care for all that. To them, pretty equals gloomy, decaying and perishable. Instead of colourful pictures basking in the sunlight,...