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Have you met Magritte?

sarahImmerse yourself in another culture and discover more about the places you visit. Did you know that the Belgian Artist Magritte was born 110 years ago? Did you know that Gustave Eiffel who designed the Eiffel tower also invented suspenders?

We’ve found interesting places and exhibitions so you can discover a different side to the cities you visit. Be it the latest exhibition, a crazy one-off event, or the most talked about new opera, you won’t miss out on the best events.

If you’ve just visited either Lille, Brussels or Paris let us know what you discovered on little break? What do you know that no one else does? Sarah

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Truc Troc at the Bozar Centre

Truc Troc at the Bozar Centre
While it may seem like we plug many events at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts on this site, this is mainly because of the sheer frequency of innovative events which are on offer there. Truc Troc is just the latest in a long line and no doubt more will come up in the future. The first...  [Read more]

Belgian Cinema Fete

Belgian Cinema Fete
Belgian cinema is often derided. This is clearly unfair. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have won the Palme D’or at the Cannes film festival twice and In Bruges was a terrific film. Perhaps because of this general derision towards Belgian cinema, the Belgians themselves tend to have...  [Read more]

Meet a Legend in Lille

Meet a Legend in Lille
If you ask any person in the UK who is the biggest British politician of the 20th century, people are likely to mention Winston Churchill first. Ask the same question about France and the name of Charles de Gaulle will inevitably come up. British people might be quite defiant about...  [Read more]

An Evening at a Brussels Museum

An Evening at a Brussels Museum
Autumn brings with it moody dark evenings, quieter streets, and woolly hats. But in Brussels it also brings with it a cultural extravaganza. This is because, every Thursday night up to and including the 17th of December, one can enjoy An Evening at a Brussels Museum. Make no mistake:...  [Read more]

The Paris Boat Show

Attending any boat show is partly an aspirational thing. The reality is, that many of the super-yachts on display are beyond the means of any visitor to the boat show. But they give boats shows an element of grandeur. They also give the organisers an element of risk. I have never been as terrified, as when, age 7, I started the engine on one of the boats at the London Boat Show which wasn’t in the water and almost burnt out the engine. The way I was shouted at by the employees should have been...  [Read more]

Sexties at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts

Sexties at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts
Sexties really is a criminal name for an exhibition. Not only is it an awful pun, it’s just not punny (I’ll get my coat…) Nonetheless, it probably is quite a good name: for the exhibition currently on at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts (continuing until the 3rd of January 2010)...  [Read more]

The Salon Page Book Fair

The Salon Page Book Fair
Books are brilliant. In a world of war and poverty, this is one of the few things which is almost universally agreed upon. Arguably, French books are even better: Zola and Camus, are just two of the pantheon of great French writers. Thus, the Salon Page Book Fair – taking place...  [Read more]

Bloomsbury Group Exhibition

Bloomsbury Group Exhibition
The Bloomsbury Group is still incredibly relevant today. Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, is constantly talking about the need to use Keynesian economics in order to fight back against the recession and John Maynard Keynes is just one of many brilliant people who emerged from the...  [Read more]

Brussels Innova Fair

Brussels Innova Fair
Brussels Expo, as the equivalent of Excel or Earls Court in London, hosts many quirky events throughout the year.  But none of them can be quite like the Brussels Innova Fair. To summarise it, is unfair to the enormous variety of inventors who showcase their work. But the purpose...  [Read more]
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