Are you looking for the latest issue of Interview magazine? Or have you spent a futile Saturday afternoon searching every store in Brussels for the Italian edition of Elle?
You need to head to the International Magazine Store in the heart of Antwerp. This spacious modern store stocks more than 10,000 different magazine and newspaper titles imported from all over the world.
The IMS has specialised sections dedicated to cars, interiors, lifestyle, music and art. But its main focus is on fashion and design magazines, along with elusive art magazines by tiny publishers.
There is a second branch in Hasselt, but no IMS in Brussels.
Derek Blyth’s hidden secret of the day: Derek Blyth is the author of the bestselling “The 500 Hidden Secrets of Belgium”. He picks out one of his favourite hidden secrets for The Brussels Times every day.
