Bestselling author Derek Blyth picks out one of his favourite hidden secrets of Belgium every day
How Brussels has changed since I arrived here on a rainy November holiday in 1989
"Like many people new to Brussels, I expected to stay a few years. But one thing led to another. And now I’ve been living in this unruly, messy city for almost 35 years."
What are the most delicious foods, refreshing drinks, coolest cafés and intriguing restaurants in Brussels now?
The short shopping stretch from the Porte de Namur to Place Louise, known as the Toison d’Or, is essentially two distinct sections bise...
Somewhere in Belgium, there is a piece of engineering so gargantuan, so mind-bogglingly over-the-top, that it makes the Atomium look like...
Until the 1870s, central Brussels resembled Bruges more than a little, as we can still see from photographs and paintings of the time.
Brussels used to love the massive viaducts that channelled cars across the city and above the people at street level.
Hidden behind rows of steel and linoleum, Meise’s herbarium holds centuries of botanical drama: imperial ambitions, scientific feuds an...
33 Place Brugmann is an immersive work of historical fiction, weaving the intimate lives of 14 apartments in one building in wartime Brus...
From a towering, foul-smelling titan to a rose garden mapped by DNA, this is no sleepy park—it’s a living, evolving marvel.
